“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”

“If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”

“Charity sees the need, not the cause.”

“God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.”

“It's the whole not the detail that matters.”

“A soldier never goes to war without his weapon.”

“Neither your work to be with insensible, nor their work to be with you.”

“Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”