False friends leave you in times of trouble.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Do you recall Fred Merriville?”She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?”“The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

People who read are people who dream.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?