The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
