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

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

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.