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.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

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

Friends are the sunshine of life.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

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