Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!