Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.