"Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

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

"The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portab…"

"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely a…"

"In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the e…"

"God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe."

"Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum."

"Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that d…"

"The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast."

"Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings."