What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.