The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.