As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.