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

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

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

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

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.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.