Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.