The most terrible of all things is terror.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

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

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

Public opinion is a second conscience.