A Nail Is Driven Out By Another

Apothegms Are In History, The Same As Pearls In The Sand, Or Gold In The Mine.

Bidden Or Unbidden, God Is Present.

Out Of All Those Centuries The Greeks Can Count Seven Sages At The Most, And If Anyone Looks At Them More Closely I Swear He'll Not Find So Much As A Half-wise Man Or Even A Third Of A Wise Man Among Them.

Besides, It Happens (how, I Cannot Tell) That An Idea Launched Like A Javelin In Proverbial Form Strikes With Sharper Point On The Hearer's Mind And Leaves Implanted Barbs For Meditation.

Many Times What Cannot Be Refuted By Arguments Can Be Parried By Laughter.