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

Keep your working power at its maximum.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.