The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.