But if out of endurance there came knowledge,-not empty Maxims and high sounding phrases, but real knowledge of her own strength and of her own weaknesses, and some true guiding sense of her own relationship to the thing we call life,-she grudged it as little as the mother grudges the birth-pains which give her her child.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
I quite agree with you that these are most sound Maxims.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
I was quite familiar with the work, and its absurdity and wisdom, and we discussed chivalry and its social aspect, as well as its system of land tenures, together with Sancho's judgment after he became governor of the island, and Don Quixote's profound Maxims of government.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs