It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.