Keep your working power at its maximum.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.