There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.