The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"