Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
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.
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.