Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Words of love, are works of love.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

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

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

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

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.