Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

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

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Polite beggary is too common.