Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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.

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

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

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

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.