When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.