A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Much wants more and loses all.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.