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

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

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

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.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.