An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.