These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

By words the mind is winged.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.