There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.