Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

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

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?