We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.