An honest man feels…
An honest man feels that he must pay Heaven for every hour of happiness with a good spell of hard unselfish work to make others happy. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume… More »

![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)

![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Let the cat wink and let the mouse run. [Let the cat wink and the mouse runs.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/tom-and-jerry-2397258_640trim480-100x75.png)

![IMAGE: Make haste slowly. / The longest way round is the nearest way home. / More haste, less speed. / Haste is waste. [Haste makes waste.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/directory-235086_640-100x67.jpg)

