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Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

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Respect a man, he will do the more.

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