Character is inured habit.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.