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

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

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

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.