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

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Patience has tender feet.

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.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.