Everything That Is Exact Is Short.

Ornaments Were Invented By Modesty.

Attention Is Like A Narrow Mouthed Vessel; Pour Into It What You Have To Say Cautiously, And, As It Were, Drop By Drop.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

We Live In An Age In Which Superfluous Ideas Abound And Essential Ideas Are Lacking.

Superstition Is The Only Religion Of Which Base Souls Are Capable Of.