Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.