Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.