Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.