Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

What's a rainy daywithout some deliciouscoffee-flavoured loneliness?

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.