Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.
The living have never shown me how to live.