Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth