Part 13 (1/2)

Indolence lolls in luxury while energy goes hungry to bed.

Toil with recompense is sweeter than recompense without toil.

Is the African heathen more precious than a sick child in a London garret?

The ashes of a bad woman cannot be cleansed with the waters of an ocean.

She who walks the street by night is an outcast. She who seduces a Prince may die a Queen.

Princes on sale for gold, women for t.i.tles, virtue for bread, statesmen for place, and priests for salary.

Monopoly. A whip in the hands of plutocrats, which bites the backs of men and saddens the hearts of women.

No soul can remain stagnant.

A gossip scatters more ills than a pestilence.

'Tis useless to kill the serpent after she has laid her eggs.

The poison on the fang cannot injure till the snake strikes.

When the unctious priest wants to borrow he cries, 'Lend to the Lord.'

We should not blot out the sun because its rays will hatch the eggs of a serpent.