To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.