The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

A budget is something we go without to stay within.

The pleasing punishment that women bear. -The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

The Father and His Two Daughters A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared, she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Sheep follow sheep.

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Don't rock the boat.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.