Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.