Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.