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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Aphorism |
| Collect as pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. Abd-el-Kader. | 1 |
| An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Whipple. | 2 |
| Books are the beehives of thought; laconics the honey taken from them. James Ellis. | 3 |
| Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. Coleridge. | 4 |
| I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. Dr. Johnson. | 5 |
| If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up 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. Jeremy Taylor. | 6 |
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