No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.