A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

If I am cheated or betrayed, I will react.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.