Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.