Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.