The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.