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.

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

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

A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

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