When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.