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.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

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

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!