Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.