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

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 an…

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

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…

If you smell what The Rock is cooking!

'When everyone routinely uses profanity, it will lose its emphatic value, and then how will we express ourselves strongly? Will we be forced to rely on careful…

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.