"There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state.  And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important."


"A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude."

~ Michel Montaigne, Essais (1580) French Moralist and essayist 1533 - 1592


The Oxford Dictionary of QUOTATIONS, Oxford University Press, 2001.