When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.