Little said is soon amended.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.