Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
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.
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.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.