Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.