Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.