But let him ask with confidence, never doubting; for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven hither and thither at the mercy of the wind--

For the rich man will pass away 'like the flower of the grass.'

For, when any one listens to it and does not practice it, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit.

And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

Elijah was only a man like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell upon the land for three years and a half.