Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.