"Habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one's maxim…"

"The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say."

"The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser an…"

"Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of i…"

"Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods, carrying the show of a…"

"‘Aphorizein’, from which we get the word ‘aphorism’, means to retreat to such a distance that a horizon of thought is…"

"APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from it…"

"The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is ever condemned to find much of his own…"

"It [an epigram] should sound like something that somebody might say, but it should be something that nobody has ever …"

"An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern."