A book that furnishes no quotations is ... no book-it is a plaything.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A short saying often carries much wisdom.

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.