What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.