Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.