I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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

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.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.