“He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.”

Ones oldest friend is the best.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

In pain is a new time born.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.