Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.