Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart