Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.