True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Every dog has his day.

Little said is soon amended.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.