If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they...

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they...

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure...

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure...

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a...

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a...

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing,...

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing,...

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature...

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature...

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of...

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of...

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven...

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven...

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the...

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...