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.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

Keep your working power at its maximum.

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

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.