Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.