It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy: in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

While Honey lies in Every Flower, no doubt, It takes a Bee to get the Honey out.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

To do two things at once is to do neither.