Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.