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

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

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

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

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