People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
A conquered foe should be watched.
When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.