Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

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.

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

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

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.

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