We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

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.

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.