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.

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

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

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.