He who has gone farthest astray is best able to find the right road. I do not say that much straying is necessary to know the way. Nor yet that every one who has gone astray knows it.
When a swift runner breaks his leg, the crawlers have a bal paré.
“TWO PEOPLE ARE NEVER AT THE SAME MOMENT EQUALLY ANGRY WITH ONE ANOTHER.”
Take one piece of advice. Don’t be advised by any one.
Between soul and speech lies the length of a trumpet. I think—I almost believe—that few trumpets are as short as the Dutch.