What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.