Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.