Delusive hope still points to distant good.

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.

God doesn't send atheists to Hell -- there's no room with all the Christians down there.

I mean, it's not like he's Damon Salvatore hot

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

Greatness breaks laws.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.