Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.