The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.