Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent. That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.
It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.