A mist may hide the sun but it does not blot it out.

Some women prefer a great infamy to a little honour.

Regard not the manner of your death but your daily life.

A churlish silence is harder to endure than a sharp tongue.

The man who gives away his freedom is everlastingly bankrupt.

The rubbish from men's tongues is h.o.a.rded while nature speaks unheard.

Human misery is not a volunteer.

Mirth's best nursery is contentment.

Men fly, women melt into a pa.s.sion.

Prejudice is the marrow of superst.i.tion.

Better a crust of bread than a funeral elegy.

Woman's first fault is no excuse for man's last.

Kind words are honey drops to the tired soul.

A bad tongue is not the clapper of a good heart.

Crossed love is forgotten--crossed opinions, never.

Distrust but do not refuse an untried remedy.

Hope is the only flavour for a diet of adversity.

He is near to happiness who makes another smile.

Greed is swifter than a greyhound.

Results give the lie to many boasts.

Nothing beslimes like a fawning tongue.

The smallest pirates fly the blackest flags.

The coming tempest is no less a great wind.

Better a bleeding wound than pent up agony.

Gigantic robberies are nevertheless robberies.