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

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

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

The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

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