~Apothegms.~--Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but
also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which
cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.--_Bacon._
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._