Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.