Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate….

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it..

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance..

Nations die first in the big cities..

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside..

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass..

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal..

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it..

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death..

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked..

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it..

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors..

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness..

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth..

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax..

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life..

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty..

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue..

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk..

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity..

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking..