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.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Better a bald head than none at all.

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

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