Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.