Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Life is not life at all without delight.