Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

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

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

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

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

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.