The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.