Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.