Every man is his own greatest dupe.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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.

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.

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

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.