Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.