Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. |
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. |
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. |
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom. |
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. |
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. |
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. |
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. |
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either |
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor. |
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. |
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. |
Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry |
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style |
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. |