Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.