Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
Words of love are works of love.
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.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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.