Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach