It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.