Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?