We often discover…
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles (1812 – 1904): Self-Help ch.11 (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech… 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: Do not put new wine into old bottles. [Put new wine into new bottles.] / No one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and run out and the skins will be ruined. But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wine-426463_640-100x76.jpg)