Wise sayings are the light-towers along the journey of life. – Attributed to Johnson in Sayings: Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes by Charles F. Schutz

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. – Alfred Bougeart, quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedn

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. – James Russell Lowell