Caress a cat and she will probably claw your face.
A confiding woman, when she loves a man, clings as closely to him as an ivy vine, and deserves as firm and trust worthy a support.
Your father was poor, but honest. Try to be richer than he, but be equally honest.
How cautious should be the man who is selecting a fellow traveller, who is to journey through life with him, and part from him only at the grave; and who is to share all the fatigues and pleasures of the voyage, as the wife does with the husband, and the husband does with the wife.
The goddess called Fortune is a whimsical queen, she is also blind, so that she neither sees what she does, knows whom she raises, nor whom she casts down.
The one who strikes first has generally a better chance to strike twice.