Aphorisms

1901

Brutes leave ingratitude to man. — Colton.

The root of all discontent is self love. — J. F. Clarke

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. — Bacon.

They that know no evil will suspect none. — Ben Jonson.

No man is happy who does not think himself so. — Marcus Antonnius.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to beauty. — Degerando.

He that takes time to resolve gives leisure to deny and warning to prepare. — Quarles.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distress is cowardice and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — Prentice.

There is a department which sums the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we quit it to assume that of another. — Rousseau.