A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.