Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.