Polite beggary is too common.
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
Words of love are works of love.
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
The most terrible of all things is terror.
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.