Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.