Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

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.

It is easier to not know than to not comprehend, for not knowing implies that the world is large, and that is a fact. Not comprehending is a far more personal fault.

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.