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

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

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

Polite beggary is too common.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.