It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
The marketplace is democratic.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again