A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!