Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.
Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.