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.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.