The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Humankind above all is lazy.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.