Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
Faults and defects every work of man must have.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.