The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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