There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.