When you find that people are not telling you the truth – look out!
One is the sleeping dog – well and good, but the sleeping dog can be roused.
I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
The more in haste, the less the speed.
The danger is they may assume undue importance.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Never tell all you know – not even to the person you know best.
Never part with information unnecessarily.
Man is always in danger – from traffic, from germs, from a hundred-and-one things. As well be killed one way as another. The moment you begin being careful of yourself – adopting as your motto ‘Safety First’ – you might as well be dead.
Let no such man be trusted.
It was wise to beware of people who were not telling the truth.
