The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.