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.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Keep your working power at its maximum.

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

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