Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

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

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.