Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.