If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.