“It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.”
“It's better to have nothing and have everything than if you have everything with nothing”
“It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.”
“Even a mistake is better than nothing.”
“He (God) will have us even though we prefer everything else to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.”
“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”