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.

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

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

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.

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

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.