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.

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

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

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

Keep your working power at its maximum.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

The most terrible of all things is terror.