Celestial Wisdom Calms The Mind.

The Excellence Of Aphorisms Consists Not So Much In The Expression Of Some Rare Or Abstruse Sentiment, As In The Comprehension Of Some Useful Truth In A Few Words.

Gayety Is To Good-humor As Perfumes To Vegetable Fragrance: The One Overpowers Weak Spirits; The Other Recreates And Revives Them.

Wickedness Is Always Easier Than Virtue; For It Takes The Short Cut To Everything.

See Nations Slowly Wise, And Meanly Just, To Buried Merit Raise The Tardy Bust.

Modern Writers Are The Moons Of Literature; They Shine With Reflected Light, With Light Borrowed From The Ancients.