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 most terrible of all things is terror.

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

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

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

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

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.