“The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram.
Emblems (1635)
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9.
“The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram 2. Compare: "The longest way round is the shortest way home", Bohn, Foreign Proverbs (Italian).
Emblems (1635)
“Thou art my life, my way, my light”
Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face? (1635).