Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

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.

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.

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

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

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