Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.
Force shites upon Reason's Back.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
There is always room for the man of force.