Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.
The first casualty in every war is truth.
How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
No sauce equals appetite.
It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.
Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.