More die in flight than in battle..

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more..

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you..

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught….

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God..

What is so certain of victory as patience?.

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it..

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to f….

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log..

There is so little that one can do for the dead!.

Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible ….

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right..

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true..

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be..

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable..

Women can do nothing that has permanence..

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about..

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen..

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is s….

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep..

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy..