Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

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.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

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.

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

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.