My son's having a will of his own leads to agitating scenes, but even that is better than that Philopator should rush into everybody's arms.

The first thing in bringing up a boy should be to teach him to say 'no.' I often say 'yes' myself when I should not, but I am a woman, and yielding becomes us better than refusal--and what is there of greater importance to a woman than to do what becomes her best, and to seem beautiful?
"I will decide on this pale dress, and put over it the net-work of gold thread with sapphire knots; that will go well with the head-dress.

Take care with your comb, Thais, you are hurting me! Now--I must not chatter any more.

Zoe, give me the roll yonder; I must collect my thoughts a little before I go down to talk among men at the banquet.

When we have just come from visiting the realm of death and of Serapis, and have been reminded of the immortality of the soul and of our lot in the next world, we are glad to read through what the most estimable of human thinkers has said concerning such things.