maxims

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy…

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be,…

I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience,…

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. George Eliot