Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

---

Strike while the iron is hot.

---

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

---

Many a true word is spoken in jest

---

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

---

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

---

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

---

The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

---

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

---

Time and tide wait for no man.

---