Life is being, not having.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
Charity is the note that resolves the discord.
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
Humility is pride in God.
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
You can buy life only with life.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
Love dwindles by pairing.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
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