Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Blame is safer than praise

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Who loses a day loses life.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.