“Kejujuran adalah kebijakan yang paling baik.”

“I don't say it and I don't think it. It's their affair and let them eat it with their bread; whether or not they were lovers, they've already made their accounting with God. I tend to my vines, it's their business, not mine; I don't stick my nose in; if you buy and lie, your purse wants to know why. Besides, naked I was born, and naked I'll die: I don't lose or gain a thing; whatever they were, it's all the same to me. And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on. But who can put doors on a field? Let them say what they please, I don't care.”

“She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.”

“When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.”

“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”

“Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.”

“Buatlah jerami saat matahari masih bercahaya terik.”