A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.