But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to hap…

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding …

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressu…

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.