They present a bit of nature with the terseness of a maxim of La Rochefoucault, and they delight as aphorisms do by their insight and the happy conciseness of its expression.

Few aphorisms are absolutely true, but then boldness more than makes up for what they lack in verity.

So complex a subject is life that to state a truth with all its accompanying limitations is to weaken it at once.

Exceptions, while demonstrating the rule, do not tend to emphasize it.

And though the whole truth is essential to science, such exhaustiveness is by no means a canon of art.
Parallels are not wanting at home.