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.

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.

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

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

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

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

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