A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

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.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

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.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.