To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt..

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato..

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men..

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other..