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

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

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

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.