Children are what the mothers are.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.