Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.