Indifference

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed

Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

A witty saying proves nothing

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.