The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?