Fact is stranger than fiction.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.