How dark are all the ways of god to man!

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 was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?