Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.