She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Are you expecting someone to poison you?" he said, somewhat taken aback.
"Not really. But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it's probably too late to pick one up.

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.