A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime when it is light anyhow.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.