Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune. . .

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Truth is no road to fortune

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others

A comprehended god is no god

Hell is paved with priests' skulls