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

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

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

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.