I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth