Never eat more than you can lift.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.