A gun will give you the body, not the bird
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.