Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

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

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

There is no thermometer for wants!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.