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.

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

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

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