The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

That's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.

Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise; In days of peril firm and brave, And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers!

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Republic of letters.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.