The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Will everyone stop eating dinosaurs?' she frowned.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

I am entirely capable." "Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved.