Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

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.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.