“The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.”

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

.Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements…

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

I love acting.

If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.