We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.