There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.