It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

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.

Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

History's just one darn thing after another.

The unspoken word never does harm.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.