If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.