Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.