Spreuken over Man

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.