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.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

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

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

That art is best which suggests most.