|
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Go to Quote / Comment
|
|
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Go to Quote / Comment
|
|
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth
Go to Quote / Comment
|
|
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Go to Quote / Comment
|
|
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Go to Quote / Comment
|