1) Quotes, maxims, proverbs, and other condensed thoughts are mental gems or jewels that contain great wisdom. 2) Well-chosen quotes can be as valuable as works of art or rare flowers in nature by imparting important insights and truths. 3) Collections of wise quotes and maxims from throughout history constitute a treasury of intellectual gems that continue providing fresh perspectives even today.

1. QUOTES What gems of painting
or statuary are in the
One must be a wise world of art, or what
reader to quote wisely flowers are in the
and well. - Amos world of nature, are
Bronson Alcott gems of thought to the
cultivated and the
The maxims of men thinking. - Oliver
disclose their hearts. - Wendell Holmes
French Proverb
Stealing someone
To select well among else's words frequently
old things, is almost spares the
equal to inventing new embarrassment of
ones. - Nicholas eating your own. -
Charles Trublet Peter Anderson
I have gathered a posie A short saying oft
of other men's flowers, contains much
and nothing but the wisdom. - Sophocles
thread that binds them
is my own. - Michel de It often happens that
Montaigne the quotations
constitute the most
Proverbs are mental valuable part of a
gems gathered in the book. - Vicesimus
diamond districts of Knox
the mind. - William R.
Alger

2. A collection of rare A proverb is much
thoughts is nothing less matter decocted into
than a cabinet of few words. - Thomas
intellectual gems.- Fuller
William B. Sprague
A maxim is the exact
Good sayings are like and noble expression
pearls strung together. of an important and
- Chinese Proverb indisputable truth.
Good maxims are the
A proverb is to speech
germs of all
what salt is to food. -
excellence; when
Arabic Proverb
firmly fixed on the
Proverbs are the cream memory, they nourish
of a nation's thought. - the will. - Joseph
Unknown Joubert
There is not less wit, It is delightful to
not less invention, in transport one's self into
applying rightly a the spirit of the past, to
thought one finds in a see how a wise man
book, than in being the has thought before us,
first author of that and to what glorious
book. - Pierre Boyle height we have at last
reached. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

3. Time is of of no Human success is a
account with great quotation from
thoughts, which are as overhead. - Charles H.
fresh today as when Parkhurst
they first passed
A well-cultivated mind
through their authors'
is, so to speak, made
minds ages ago. -
up of all the minds of
Samuel Smiles
preceding ages; it is
The diamond may only one single mind
adorn royalty, which has been
regardless of personal educated during all this
worth; but jewels of time. - Bernard de
thought render even Bovier de Fontenelle
poverty illustrious and
Maxims are the
sublime.
condensed good sense
- found in Gems for
of nations. - Sir J.
the Fireside
Mackintosh
Proverbs may be said
Many ideas grow
to be the abridgment of
better when
wisdom. - Joseph
transplanted into
Joubert
another mind, than in
The proverb answers the one where they
where the sermon fails. sprung up. - Oliver
- W. G. Simms Wendell Holmes

4. Always have a book at
hand, in the parlor, on
the table, for the
family; a book of
condensed thought and
striking anecdote, of
sound maxims and
truthful apothegms. It
will impress on your
own mind a thousand
valuable suggestions,
and teach your children
a thousand lessons of
truth and duty. Such a
book is a casket of
jewels for your
housebold. - Tryon
Edwards