Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.