The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.