This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.