When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.