It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Repetition is the mother of education.