- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich. ~ Chinese proverb
- A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
- Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
- It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
- The heart is half a prophet. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
- When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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