Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.