If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

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.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

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