“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”

“Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.”

“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“I answered that I thought he would never smile again.”

“He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.”

“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”