understanding Quotes

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Life is our dictionary.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.