Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.