To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

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

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Words of love are works of love.