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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.
And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building.
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And live we how we can, yet die we must.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
She cannot love, Nor take no shape nor project of affection, She is so self-endeared.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Human blunders, however, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.