Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

No man can have society upon his own terms.