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

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

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.

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.

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.

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