Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.