and the American--are going all away into
wind and tongue.= _Carlyle._
=The finest qualities of our nature, like the= 45
=bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by
the most delicate handling; yet we do not
treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly.=
_Thoreau._
=The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck.=
_Pr._
=The fire that all things else consumeth clean /
May hurt and heal.= _Sir Thomas Wyatt._
=The fire that does not warm me shall never
scorch me.= _Pr._
=The fire which enlightens is the same fire
which consumes.= _Amiel._
=The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat
one's self. All sin is easy after that.= _Bailey._
=The first approach to riches is security from
poverty.= _Johnson._
=The first article that a young trader offers for= 5
=sale is his honesty.= _Pr._
=The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education
is in the rule over our thoughts.= _Ruskin._
=The first breath / Is the beginning of death.= _Pr._
=The first business of the philosopher is to part
with self-conceit.= _Epictetus._
=The first condition of education is being put to
wholesome and useful work.= _Ruskin._
=The first condition of goodness is something to= 10
=love; the second, something to reverence.=
_George Eliot._
=The first creation of God in the works of the
days was the light of the sense; the last
was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work
ever since is the illumination of the
spirit.= _Bacon._
=The first day a man is a guest, the second a
burden, the third a pest.= _Laboulaye._
=The first days of spring have less grace than
the growing virtue of a young man.= _Vauvenargues._
=The first duty of a man is that of subduing
fear; he must get rid of fear; he cannot
act at all till then; his acts are slavish, not
true.= _Carlyle._
=The first duty of every man in the world is to= 15
=find his true master, and, for his own good,
submit to him; and to find his true inferior,
and, for that inferior's good, conquer him.=
_Ruskin._
=The first evil those suffer who are fain to talk
is that they hear nothing.= _Plutarch._
=The first faults are theirs that commit them, /
The second are theirs that permit them.= _Pr._
=The first forty years of life furnish the
text, the remaining thirty the commentary.=
_Schopenhauer._ (?)
=The first glass for myself, the second for my
friends, the third for good-humour, and the
fourth for mine enemies.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The first glass of a wine is the one which gives= 20
=us its true taste.= _Schopenhauer._
=The first great work / Is that yourself may to
yourself be true.= _Roscommon._
=The first hour of the morning is the rudder of
the day.= _Ward Beecher._
=The first ingredient in conversation is truth,
the next good sense, the third good humour,
and the fourth wit.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The first lesson of life is one of vicarious suffering.=
_Ward Beecher._
=The first lesson of literature, no less than of= 25
=life, is the learning how to burn one's own
smoke.= _Lowell._
="The first love, which is infinite," can be followed
by no second like it.= _Carlyle._
=The first of the nine orders of knaves is he
that tells his errand before he goes it.= _Pr._
=The first period of a nation, as of an individual,
is the period of unconscious strength.= _Emerson._
=The first point of wisdom is to discern that
which is false; the second, to know that
which is true.= _Lactantius._
=The first power of a nation consists in knowing= 30
=how to guide the plough; its second
power consists in knowing how to wear the
fetter.= _Ruskin._
=The first principle of all human economy--individual
or political--is to live with as few
wants as possible, and to waste nothing of
what is given us to supply them.= _Ruskin._
=The first problem= (in life) =is to unite yourself
with some one and with somewhat.= _Carlyle._
=The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything
is his endeavouring to fix the stigma
of failure upon others.= _B. R. Haydon._
=The first requisite, both in conversation and
correspondence, is to attend to all the proper
decorums which our own character and that
of others demand.= _Blair._
=The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.= 35
_Antoine Bret._
=The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's, that
of self-conceit.= _Carlyle._
=The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is
decoration, as indeed we still see among the
barbarous classes in civilised countries.= _Carlyle._
=The first step towards greatness is to be
honest.= _Pr._
=The first test of a truly great man is his humility.
I do not mean by humility, doubt of
his power or hesitation in speaking his
opinions; but a right understanding of the
relation between what he can say and do,
and the rest of the world's sayings and
doings.= _Ruskin._
=The first thing for acceptance of truth is to= 40
=unlearn human doctrines and become as a
little child.= _General Gordon._
=The first thing in oratory, Demosthenes used
to say, was action; the second, action; and
the third, action.=
=The first use of education is to enable us to
consult with the wisest and the greatest
men on all points of earnest difficulty.=
_Ruskin._
=The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited,
and cannot serve any one; it must
husband its resources to live. But health or
fulness answers its own ends, and has to
spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods
and creeks of other men's necessities.=
_Emerson._
=The first year let your house to your enemy;
the second to your friend; the third, live in
it yourself.= _Pr._
=The fittest place where man can die / Is where= 45
=he dies for man.= _M. J. Barry._
=The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation=
(of God) =that is, that was, or that can be. In
that is the image of God painted; in that is
the law of God written; in that is the promise
of God revealed.= _Ruskin._
=The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless
the deed go with it.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=The floating vapour is just as true an illustration
of the law of gravity as the falling
avalanche.= _John Burroughs._
=The flower is the proper object of the seed,
not the seed of the flower.= _Ruskin._
=The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.=
_Wordsworth._
=The flower of youth never appears more
beautiful than when it bends towards the
Sun of Righteousness.= _Matthew Henry._
=The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but
sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer.=
_Lewis Morris._
=The follies of modern Liberalism are practically
summed up in the denial or neglect
of the quality and intrinsic value of things.=
_Ruskin._
=The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for= 5
=a shadow.= _Tennyson._
=The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to
those who are themselves most foolish.= _Goldsmith._
=The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise
man knows himself to be a fool.= _As You Like
It_, v. 1.
=The fool is always discovered if he stayeth too
long; like the ass dressed in a tiger's skin,
from his voice.= _Hitopadesa._
=The fool is in himself the object of pity till he
is flattered.= _Steele._
=The fool needs company, the wise man solitude.= 10
_Rückert._
=The foolish and the dead alone never change
their opinion.= _Lowell._
=The foot of the owner is the best manure for
his land.= _Pr._
=The force of the guinea in your pocket depends
on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's.=
_Ruskin._
=The form of government can never be a matter
of choice; it is almost always a matter of
necessity.= _Joubert._
=The formation of his character ought to be= 15
=the chief aim of every man.= _Goethe._
=The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience.=
_Dryden._
=The fortune which nobody sees makes a man
happy and unenvied.= _Bacon._
=The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of
man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant
flower that springs from it, for the purity
and courage which are immortal.= _Thoreau._
=The foundations of man are not in matter, but
in spirit.= _Emerson._
=The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, /= 20
=That sacred stream, should never water
weeds.= _Wall._
=The fox puts off all with a jest.= _L'Estrange._
=The fox thrives best when he is most curst.= _Pr._
=The fraction of life can be increased in value
not so much by increasing your numerator
as by lessening your denominator. Nay,
unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself
divided by zero will give infinity.= _Carlyle._
=The free man is he who is loyal to the laws
of this universe; who in his heart sees and
knows that injustice cannot befall him here;
that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity,
evil is not possible here.= _Carlyle._
=The= (French) =Revolution was a revolt against
lies, and against a betrayal of love.= _Ruskin._ 25
=The fresh air of the open country is the proper
place to which we belong. It is as if the
breath of God were there wafted immediately
to men, and a divine power exerted its influence.=
_Goethe._
=The fresh gaze of a child is richer in significance
than the forecasting of the most indubitable
seer.= _Novalis._
=The friends thou hast, and their adoption
tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
of steel.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=The frost is God's plough, which he drives
through every inch of ground, opening each
clod and pulverising the whole.= _Fuller._
=The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding,= 30
=is not restrained only to such friends
as are able to give counsel (they indeed are
best), but even without that a man learneth
of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to
light, and whetteth his wits as against a
stone, which itself cuts not.= _Bacon._
=The fruit of life is experience, not happiness,
and its fruition to accustom ourselves, and to
be content, to exchange hope for insight.=
_Schopenhauer._
=The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of
them that make peace.= _St. James._
=The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always
mellow.= _Quarles._
=The full moon brings fair weather.= _Pr._
=The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to= 35
=the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.=
_Bible._
=The furiously wicked have but a short career.
Bad for them, but good for the universe.=
_Spurgeon._
=The future comes on slowly, the present flies
like an arrow, the past stands for ever still.=
_Schiller._
=The future destiny of the child is always the
work of the mother.= _Napoleon._
=The future epic of the world rests not with
those near dead, but with those that are
alive, and those that are coming into life.=
_Carlyle._
=The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; /= 40
=We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides
in it / Daunting us--onward; / But solemn
before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of
all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us--/
Graves under us, silent.= _Goethe._
=The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be
trusted of any, nor to be believed when we
say the truth.= _Sir Walter Raleigh._
=The game is not worth the candle.= _Corn._
=The gardener's business is to tend the flowers
and root out the weeds.= _Bodenstedt._
=The general and perpetual voice of men is as
the sentence of God himself.= _Hooker._
=The general tendency of things throughout= 45
=the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant
power among mankind.= _J. S. Mill._
=The generality never suspect the devil even
when he has them by the throat.= _Goethe._
=The generous, who is always just, and the
just who is always generous, may, unannounced,
approach the throne of Heaven.=
_Lavater._
=The genius of light is friendly to the noble,
and, in the dark, brings them friends from
afar.= _Emerson._
=The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered
by their proverbs.= _Bacon._
=The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.= 50
_Spenser._
=The genuine use of gunpowder I hold to be
that it makes all men alike tall.= _Carlyle._
=The germs of all things are in every heart.=
_Amiel._
=The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is
a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek
death.= _Bible._
=The gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the
words of the righteous.= _Bible._
=The gift of prayer is not always in our power,= 5
=but in the eye of Heaven the very wish to
pray is prayer.= _Lessing._
=The gift which is to be given should be given
gratuitously.= _Hitopadesa._
=The gifted man is he who sees the essential
point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage.=
_Carlyle._
=The glass of fashion and the mould of form, /
The observed of all observers.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The glory dies not, and the grief is past.= _Sir
Egerton Brydges._
=The glory is not in never falling, but in rising= 10
=every time you fall.= _Bovee._
=The glory of a people and of an age is always
the work of a small number of great men,
and disappears with them.= _Baron de Grimm._
=The glory of children are their fathers.= _Bible._
=The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the
problem, but in putting it.= _Renan._
=The glory of young men is their strength: and
the beauty of old men is the grey head.= _Bible._
=The God of merely traditional believers is= 15
=the great Absentee of the universe.= _W. R.
Alger._
=The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and
pride.= _Luther._
=The God who dwells in my bosom can stir my
heart to its depths.= _Goethe._
=The goddess Athene is armed with the Gorgon's
head.= _Ed._
=The gods approve the depth, and not the
tumult, of the soul.= _Wordsworth._
=The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices /= 20
=Make instruments to scourge us.= _King
Lear_, v. 3.
=The gods are long-suffering; but the law from
the beginning was, He that will not work
shall perish from the earth; and the patience
of the gods has limits.= _Carlyle._
=The gods are on the side of the strongest.=
_Emerson._
=The gods are wont to save by human means.=
_Goethe._
=The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds
of the father. Each or good or bad
reaps the due reward of his own actions.
Parents' blessing, not their curse, is inherited.=
_Goethe._
=The gods hearken to him who hearkens to= 25
=them.= _Homer._
=The gods in charity oft lend their strength to
man.= _Schiller._
=The gods invariably make us pay dear for the
great benefits they confer on us.= _Corn._
=The gods of fable are the shining moments of
great men.= _Emerson._
=The gods sell all things at a fair price.= _Ancient
Pr._
=The gods sell to us all the goods which they= 30
=give us.= _Epicharmus._
=The gods, when they appear to man, are
commonly unrecognised by them.= _Goethe._
=The golden age hath passed away, / Only the
good have power to bring it back.= _Goethe._
=The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed
in the past no more than now. / And did it
e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it
now may be restored. Still meet congenial
spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures
in this beauteous world.= _Goethe._
=The golden moments in the stream of life rush
past us, and we see nothing but sand; the
angels come to visit us, and we only know
them when they are gone.= _George Eliot._
=The good are always ready to be the upholders= 35
=of the good in their misfortunes.
Elephants even are wont to bear the burthens
of elephants who have sunk in the
mire.= _Hitopadesa._
=The good are better made by ill, / As odours
crushed are sweeter still.= _Rogers._
=The good die first, / And they whose hearts
are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket.=
_Wordsworth._
=The good-for-nothing is he who cannot command
and cannot even obey.= _Goethe._
=The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is
good.= _Whittier._
=The good mother saith not, "Will you?" but= 40
=gives.= _Pr._
=The good nature of the dog is not discouraged,
although it often brings upon him only rebuffs;
the abusive treatment of man never
offends him, because he loves man.= _Renan._
=The good need little water, but the base /
Free from their guilt not ocean's self can
lave.= _Pythian oracle._
=The good of other times let others state; /
I think it lucky I was born so late.= _Sydney
Smith._
=The good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple
plan, / That they should take who have the
power, / And they should keep who can.=
_Wordsworth._
=The good that passes by without returning,= 45
=leaves behind it an impression that may be
compared to a void, and is felt like a want.=
_Goethe._
=The good, the new, comes exactly from that
quarter whence it is not looked for, and is
always something different from what is expected.=
_Feuerbach._
=The good things which belong to prosperity
are to be wished; but the good things that
belong to adversity are to be admired.=
_Bacon, from Seneca._
=The good word is an easy obligation; but not
to speak ill requires only our silence, which
costs us nothing.= (?)
=The goods of this world cannot be divided
without being lessened; but why be a niggard
of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature,
yet takes nothing from our own
means of enjoyment?= _Burns._
=The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to= 50
=lay where there are eggs already.= _Spurgeon._
=The gospel is at once the assigner of our
tasks and the magazine of our strength.=
_Decay of Piety._
=The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone
subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony
in man.= _Emerson._
=The governing class, who should be working
at an ark of deliverance for themselves and
us while the hours still are, do nothing but
complain, "We cannot get our hands kept
rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning
the planks.= _Carlyle._
=The government must always be a step in
advance of the popular movement.= _Count
Arnim-Boytzenburg._
=The government of England is a government
of law.= _Junius._
=The gown is hers that wears it, and the world
is his who enjoys it.= _Pr._
=The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give= 5
=place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of
understanding.= _Carlyle on the transition from
the age of romance to that of science._
=The grand encourager of Delphic and other
noises is the echo.= _Carlyle._
="The grapes are sour," said the fox when he
could not reach them.= _Pr._
=The gravest events dawn with no more noise
than the morning star makes in rising.
All great developments complete themselves
in the world, and modestly wait in silence,
praising themselves never, and announcing
themselves not at all. We must be sensitive
and sensible if we would see the beginnings
and endings of great things. That is
our part.= _Ward Beecher._
=The great agent of the march of the world is
pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for
development and is ill at ease in the process.=
_Renan._
=The great and rich depend on those whom= 10
=their power or their wealth attaches to
them.= _Rogers._
=The great art of ruling consists for most part
in persuading the people to believe that whatever
happens happens through us.= _Cötvös._
=The great artist is the slave of his ideal.=
_Bovee._
=The great cause of revolutions is this: that,
while nations move onward, constitutions
stand still.= _Macaulay._
=The great distinction between mediæval art
and modern is, that the former was brought
into the service of religion and the latter is
not.= _Ruskin._
=The great doers in history have always been= 15
=men of faith.= _Chapin._
=The great duty of life is not to give pain; and
the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse
for one who voluntarily wounds the
heart of a fellow-creature.= _Fredrika Bremer._
=The great error of our nature is, not to know
where to stop, not to be satisfied with any
reasonable acquirement, not to compound
with our condition; but to lose all we have
gained by an insatiable pursuit after more.=
_Burke._
=The great event for the world is, now as
always, the arrival in it of a new wise man.=
_Carlyle._
=The great facts are the near ones.= _Emerson._
=The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation.= 20
_Sen._
=The great hope of society is individual character.=
_Channing._
=The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference
of circumstances.= _Emerson._
=The great man does, in good truth, belong to
his own age; nay, more so than any other
man; being properly the synopsis and epitome
of such age with its interests and influences;
but belongs likewise to all ages,
otherwise he is not great.= _Carlyle._
=The great man goes ahead of his time, the
prudent= (_kluge_) =man goes with it, the crafty
man makes his own out of it, and the blockhead
sets himself against it.= _Bauernfeld._
=The great man has more of human nature than= 25
=other men organised in him.= _Theodore Parker._
=The great man is he who, in the midst of the
crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude.= _Emerson._
=The great mass of people have eyes and ears,
but not much more, especially little power of
judgment, and even memory.= _Schopenhauer._
=The great modern recipe is to work, still to
work, and always to work.= _Gambetta._
=The great moments of life are but moments
like the others. Your doom is spoken in a
word or two. A single look from the eyes,
a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it;
or of the lips, though they cannot speak.=
_Thackeray._
=The great point is not to pull down, but to= 30
=build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy.=
_Goethe._
=The great portion of labour is not skilled; the
millions are and must be skilless, where
strength alone is wanted.= _Carlyle._
=The great principle of all effort is to endeavour
to do, not what is absolutely best, but what
is easily within our power, and adapted to
our temper and condition.= _Ruskin._
=The great river-courses which have shaped
the lives of men have hardly changed.= _George
Eliot._
=The great role of moral conduct is, next to
God, to respect time.= _Lavater._
=The great school for learning is the brain itself= 35
=of the learner.= _Carlyle._
=The great soul of the world is just. There is
justice here below; at bottom there is nothing
else but justice.= _Carlyle._
=The great soul that sits on the throne of the
universe is not, never was, and never will
be, in a hurry.= _J. G. Holland._
=The great source of calamity lies in regret or
anticipation; he therefore is most wise who
thinks of the present alone, regardless of the
past or the future.= _Goldsmith._
=The great spirits that have gone before us can
survive only as disembodied voices.= _Carlyle._
=The great successes of the world have been= 40
=affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth
trial.= _John Morley._
=The great thieves punish the little ones.= _Pr._
=The great thing, after all, is only Forwards.=
_Goethe._
=The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing
billows to the remotest creek, and the
overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns
also the households of the lowly.= _Carlyle._
=The greater and more various any one's knowledge,
the longer he takes to find out anything
that may suddenly be asked him;
because he is like a shopkeeper who has to
get the article wanted from a large and
multifarious store.= _Schopenhauer._
=The greater height sends down the deeper
fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns
worst of all.= _Quarles._
=The greater man the greater courtesy.= _Tennyson._
=The greater proportion of mankind are more
sensitive to contemptuous language than
unjust acts; for they can less easily bear
insult than wrong.= _Plutarch._
=The greatest achievements of the human mind
are generally received at first with distrust.=
_Schopenhauer._
=The greatest benefit which one friend can= 5
=confer upon another, is to guard, and
excite, and elevate his virtues.= _Johnson._
=The greatest braggards are generally the
greatest cowards.= _Rousseau._
=The greatest clerkes= (scholars) =ben not the
wisest men.= _Chaucer._
=The greatest difficulties lie where we are not
looking for them.= _Goethe._
=The greatest events of an age are its best
thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find
its way into action.= _Bovee._
=The greatest expense we can be at is that of= 10
=our time.= _Pr._
=The greatest felicity that felicity hath is to
spread.= _Hooker._
=The greatest flood hath the soonest ebb; the
sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the
hottest love the coldest end; and from the
deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest
hate.= _Socrates._
=The greatest genius is the most indebted man.=
_Emerson._
=The greatest happiness of the greatest number.=
_Priestley._
=The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue= 15
=and the worst dogs, is quiet.= _Jean Paul._
=The greatest man in history was the poorest.=
_Emerson._
=The greatest man is ever a son of man= (_Menschenkind_).
_Goethe._
=The greatest man living may stand in need of
the meanest as much as the meanest does
of him.= _Fuller._
=The greatest men even want much more of the
sympathy which every honest fellow can
give than that which the great only can
impart.= _Thoreau._
=The greatest men of a nation are those whom= 20
=it puts to death.= _Renan._
=The greatest men of any age, those who
become its leaders when there is a great
march to be begun, are separated from the
average intellects of their day by a distance
which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of
wonder.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest men, whether poets or historians,
live entirely in their own age, and the
greatest faults of their works are gathered
out of their own age.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest men will be necessarily those
who possess the best capacities, cultivated
with the best habits.= _James Harris._
=The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate
flirtation.= _La Roche._
=The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able= 25
=to bear misfortune.= _Bias._
=The greatest object in the universe, says a
certain philosopher, is a good man struggling
with adversity; yet there is a still greater,
which is the good man that comes to relieve
it.= _Goldsmith._
=The greatest of all economists are the fortifying
virtues, which the wisest men of all time
have arranged under the general heads of
Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which
discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the
spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude,
the spirit which persists and endures
rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which
stops and refuses rightly.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest of all injustice is that which goes
under the name of law.= _L'Estrange._
=The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's
own nature and act contrary to its innate
moral principle.= _Sophocles._
=The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be= 30
=conscious of none.= _Carlyle._
=The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for
any other advantage.= _Schopenhauer._
=The greatest of heroic deeds are those which
are performed within four walls and in
domestic privacy.= _Jean Paul._
=The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is
modesty and humility, which go a great way
in the character even of the most exalted
princes.= _Napoleon._
=The greatest part of mankind labour under
one delirium or another.= _Fielding._
=The greatest prayer is patience.= _Buddha._ 35
=The greatest skill is shown in disguising our
skill.= _La Roche._
=The greatest scholars are not always the
wisest men.= _Pr._
=The greatest star is that at the little end of
the telescope,--the star that is looking, not
looked after, nor looked at.= _Theo. Parker._
=The greatest success is confidence, or perfect
understanding between sincere people.=
_Emerson._
=The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.= 40
_Malesherbes._
=The greatest truths are the simplest; and so
are the greatest men.= _Hare._
=The greatest vessel hath but its measure.=
_Pr._
=The greatest virtues of men are only splendid
sins.= _Augustine._ (?)
=The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients
who never become old.= _Weber._
=The Greeks cared for man only, and for the= 45
=rest of the universe little or not at all; the
moderns for the universe only, and man not
at all.= _Ruskin._
=The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to
lordship over nature; it was Christ who
first taught us what that spirit is in itself.=
_Ed._
=The grey mare is the better horse.= _Pr._
=The grief that does not speak / Whispers
the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.=
_Macb._, iv. 3.
=The grief which all hearts share grows less
for one.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The groundsel speaks not save what it heard= 50
=at the hinges.= _Pr._
=The guilty mind debases the great image that
it wears, and levels us with brutes.= (?)
=The habit and power of reading with reflection,
comprehension, and memory all alert and
awake, does not come at once to the natural
man any more than many other sovereign
virtues.= _John Morley._
=The habit of looking on the best side of every
event is worth more than a thousand a year.=
_Johnson._
=The habit of lying, when once formed, is easily
extended to serve the designs of malice or
interest; like all habits, it spreads indeed of
itself.= _Paley._
=The habit of party in England is not to ask the
alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the
guidance of a man of character.= _Lord John
Russell._
=The hand of little employment hath the daintier= 5
=sense.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=The hand that gives, gathers.= _Pr._
=The Hand that hath made you fair hath made
you good; the goodness that is cheap in
beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but
grace, being the soul of your complexion,
should keep the body of it ever fair.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The happiest of men were he who, understanding
his craft and working intelligently
with his hands, and earning competence and
freedom by the exercise of his wits, found
time to live by the heart and by the brain, to
understand his own work, and to love the
work of God.= _Mme. George Sand._
=The happiness of life is made up of minute
fractions,--the little, soon-forgotten charities
of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt
compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery,
and the countless other infinitesimals of
pleasant thought and feeling.= _Coleridge._
=The happiness of man depends on no creed= 10
=and no book; it depends on the dominion of
truth, which is the redeemer and saviour, the
Messiah and the King of glory.= _Rabbi Wise._
=The happiness of the human race is one of the
designs of God, but our own individual
happiness must not be made our first or our
direct aim.= _W. R. Greg._
=The happiness we owe to ourselves is greater
than that which we owe to our surroundings.=
_Metrodorus._
=The happy day will come when mind, heart
and hands shall be alive together, and shall
work in concert; when there shall be a
harmony between God's munificence and
man's delight in it.= _Mme. George Sand._
=The happy have whole days, and those they
choose; / The unhappy have but hours, and
those they lose.= _Colley Cibber._
=The happy man is he who distinguishes the= 15
=boundary between desires and delight, and
stands firmly on the higher ground.= _Landor._
=The happy think a lifetime a short stage: /
One night to the unhappy seems an age.=
_Lucian._
=The hardest step is over the threshold.= _Pr._
=The hardships or misfortunes we lie under are
more easy to us than those of any other
person would be, should we change conditions
with him.= _Hor._
=The hare leaps out of the bush where we least
look for her.= _Sp. Pr._
=The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers= 20
=are few.= _Jesus._
=The hatred which is grafted on extinguished
friendship must bring forth the most deadly
fruits.= _Lessing._
=The head cannot understand any work of art
unless it be in company with the heart.=
_Goethe._
=The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged
and inspired by the moral sentiments.=
_Emerson._
=The head learns new things, but the heart for
evermore practises old experiences.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The head only reproduces what the heart= 25
=creates; and so we give the mocking-bird
credit when he imitates the loving murmurs
of the dove.= _G. J. W. Melville._
=The health of a state consists simply in this,
that in it those who are wisest shall also be
strongest.= _Ruskin._
=The healthy know not of their health, but only
the sick.= _Carlyle._
=The healthy man is the compliment of the
seasons, and in winter summer is in his
heart. There is the south!= _Thoreau._
=The healthy understanding is not the logical
argumentative, but the intuitive; for the
end of understanding is not to prove and
find reasons, but to know and believe.=
_Carlyle._
=The heart always sees before the head can= 30
=see.= _Carlyle._
=The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us
right or wrang.= _Burns._
=The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles
God.= _Burns._
=The heart can ne'er a transport know / That
never feels a pain.= _Lyttelton._
=The heart has eyes that the brain knows
nothing of.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=The heart has its arguments with which the= 35
=understanding is not acquainted.= (?)
=The heart is a small thing, but desireth great
matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's
dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient
for it.= _Hugo de Anima._
=The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked; who can know it?=
_Bible._
=The heart is like a millstone, which gives
meat if you supply it with corn, but frets
itself if you don't.= _C. J. Weber._
=The heart is like a musical instrument of many
strings, all the chords of which require putting
in harmony.= _Saadi._
=The heart is like the sea, is subject to storms,= 40
=ebb-tide and flood, and in its depths is many
a precious pearl.= _Heine._
=The heart is the best logician.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a
stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.=
_Bible._
=The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then
the sweet scent will come out.= _Bunyan._
=The heart must be divorced from its idols.= (?)
=The heart must glow before the tongue can= 45
=gild.= _W. R. Alger._
=The heart needs not for its heaven much
space, nor many stars therein, if only the
star of love has arisen.= _Jean Paul._
=The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the
mouth of a wise man is in his heart.= _Pr._
=The heart of a wise man should resemble a
mirror, which reflects every object without
being sullied by any.= _Confucius._
=The heart of childhood is all mirth.= _Keble._
=The heart of every man lies open to the shafts
of reproof if the archer can but take a proper
aim.= _Goldsmith._
=The heart of man is the place the devils dwell= 5
=in.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The heart of the righteous studieth to answer;
but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil
things.= _Bible._
=The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning;
but the heart of fools is in the house of
mirth.= _Bible._
=The heart sees farther than the head.= _Pr._
=The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
is always the first to be touched by the
thorns.= _Moore._
=The heart that once truly loves never forgets.= 10
_Pr._
=The heart, unlike the fancy and the imagination,
is not complex, and may be reached by
the same weapons of thought in the most
luxurious court of Christendom as in the
tent of the Arab or the wigwam of the
Cherokee.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The heart which truly loves puts not its love
aside ... but grows stronger for that which
seeks to thwart it.= _Lewis Morris._
=The heart will break, yet brokenly live on.=
_Byron._
=The hearts of men are their books, events
are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence.=
_Macaulay._
=The heavenly powers never go out of their= 15
=road.= _Emerson._
=The heavens and the earth, and all that is between
them, think ye we have created them
in jest?= _Koran._
=The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture
of the Eternal.= _Carlyle._
=The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament showeth his handiwork.= _Bible._
=The heavenward path which a great man
opens up for us and traverses generally,
like the track of a ship through the water,
closes behind him on his decease.= _Goethe._
=The heaviest head of corn hangs its head= 20
=lowest.= _Gael. Pr._
=The heavy and the weary weight / Of all this
unintelligible world.= _Wordsworth._
=The Hebrew Bible, is it not, before all things,
true, as no other book ever was or will be?=
_Carlyle._
=The height charms us, the steps to it do not;
with the summit in our eye, we love to walk
along the plain.= _Goethe._
=The height of ability consists in a thorough
knowledge of the real value of things, and
of the genius of the age we live in.= _La
Roche._
=The heights by great men reached and kept /= 25
=Were not attained by sudden flight, / But
they, while their companions slept, / Were
toiling upward in the night.= _Longfellow._
=The hell of these days is the infinite terror of
Not getting on, especially of Not making
money.= _Carlyle._
=The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a
goose.= _Eastern Pr._
=The herd of people dread sound understanding
more than anything; they ought to
dread stupidity, if they knew what was
really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant,
they must have it pushed aside; stupidity
is but pernicious, they can let it stay.=
_Goethe._
=The heroes of literary history have been no
less remarkable for what they have suffered
than for what they have achieved.=
_Johnson._
=The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first= 30
=times, still feels and sees in us of the latest.=
_Carlyle._
=The higher character a person supports, the
more he should regard his minutest actions.=
_Not traceable._
=The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for
the while without exponent; yet does it
continue indestructible, unweariedly active,
and work blindly in the great chaotic deep.
Thus sect after sect, and church after church,
bodies itself forth, and melts again into new
metamorphosis.= _Carlyle._
=The higher the culture, the more honourable
the work.= _Roscher_
=The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood
and kinship with mere insanity.=
_Carlyle._
=The higher we rise, the more isolated we= 35
=become, and all elevations are cold.= _De
Boufflers._
=The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout
man.= _Prof. Blackie._
=The highest elevation attainable by man is a
heroic life.= _Schopenhauer._
=The highest exercise of invention has nothing
to do with fiction; but is an invention of new
truth, what we can call a revelation.= _Carlyle._
=The highest genius never flowers in satire, but
culminates in sympathy with that which is
best in human nature, and appeals to it.=
_Chapin._
=The highest gift which we receive from God= 40
=and Nature is Life, the revolving movement,
which knows neither pause nor rest, of the
self-conscious being round itself. The instinct
to protect and cherish life is indestructibly
innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it
ever remains a mystery to us and others.=
_Goethe._
=The highest happiness of us mortals is to
execute what we consider right and good;
to be really masters of the means conducive
to our aims.= _Goethe._
=The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near
from every point, and thou must find it, if
at all, by methods native to thyself alone.=
_Emerson._
=The highest in God's esteem are meanest in
their own.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The highest joys spring from those possessions
which are common to all, which we
can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived
of by others, to which kind Nature
has given all an equal right--a right which
she herself guards with silent omnipotence.=
_Goethe._
=The highest liberty is in harmony with the
eternal laws.= _H. Giles._
=The highest man of us is born brother to his
contemporaries; struggle as he may, there
is no escaping the family likeness.= _Carlyle._
=The highest melody dwells only in silence--the
sphere melody, the melody of health.=
_Carlyle._
=The Highest not merely has, but is, reason
and understanding.= _Goethe._
=The highest political watchword is not Liberty,= 5
=Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but
Service.= _A. H. Clough._
=The highest price a man can pay for a thing is
to ask for it.= _Pr._
=The highest problem of every art is, by means
of appearances, to produce the illusion of a
loftier reality.= _Goethe._
=The highest problem of literature is the writing
of a Bible.= _Novalis._
=The highest reach of a news-writer is an
empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures
on the public management.= _La
Bruyère._
=The highest thing that art can do is to set= 10
=before you the true image of the presence of
a noble human being. It has never done
more than this, and it might not do less.=
_Ruskin._
=The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity;
of colder regions, temperance.= _Bovee._
=The highest wisdom is not to be always wise.=
_M. Opiz._
=The highway of the upright is to depart from
evil.= _Bible._
=The hind that would be mated by the lion /
Must die for love.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=The historian is a prophet with his face directed= 15
=to the past.= _Fr. v. Schlegel._
=The history of a man is his character.= _Goethe._
=The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the
pain of it. We lose the right of complaining
sometimes by forbearing it, but we often
treble the force.= _Sterne._
=The history of every man should be a Bible.=
_Novalis._
=The history of persecution is a history of endeavours
to cheat Nature, to make water
run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes
no difference whether the actors be many or
one, a tyrant or a mob.= _Emerson._
=The history of reforms is always identical; it= 20
=is the comparison of the idea with the fact.=
_Emerson._
=The history of the Church is a history of the
invisible as well as of the visible Church;
which latter, if disjoined from the former, is
but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and
overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless,
nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose
history is less important than to forward its
downfall.= _Carlyle._
=The history of the world is nothing but the
history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling;
operating in great things as in small,
... inculcating through all of them the great
moral, that it is not good for a man to be
contented with evils that he can remove.=
_John Wagstaffe._
=The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.= _Bible._
=The hollow sea-shell which for years hath
stood / On dusty shelves, when held against
the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent.= _Eugene
Lee-Hamilton._
=The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso= 25
=we share with another's need; / Not what we
give, but what we share, / For the gift without
the giver is bare.= _Lowell._
=The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended
fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the
ba', / Has aye some cause to smile.= _Burns._
=The honest man does that from duty which
the man of honour does for the sake of character.=
(?)
=The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king
o' men for a' that.= _Burns._
=The honourablest part of talk is to give the
occasion; and again to moderate and pass
to somewhat else, for then a man leads the
dance.= _Bacon._
=The horse is prepared against the day of battle:= 30
=but safety is of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides
him another.= _Pr._
=The host should be indeed a host, and a lord
of the land, a self-appointed brother of his
race; called to this place, besides, by all
the winds of heaven and his good genius,
as truly as the preacher is called to preach.=
_Thoreau._
=The hottest love has the coldest end.= _Socrates._
=The hour of all windbags does arrive; every
windbag is at length ripped and collapses.=
_Carlyle._
=The hours should be instructed by the ages,= 35
=and the ages explained by the hours.= _Emerson._
=The hours that we pass with happy prospects
in view are more pleasing than those crowned
with fruition.= _Goldsmith._
=The house of the childless is empty; and so
is the heart of him that hath no wife.= _Hitopadesa._
=The house that is a-building looks not as the
house that is built.= _Pr._
=The household is the home of the man as well
as of the child.= _Emerson._
=The human creature needs first of all to be= 40
=educated, not that he may speak, but that
he may have something weighty and valuable
to say.= _Carlyle._
=The human face is my landscape.= _Sir Joshua
Reynolds._
=The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the
cry of the bittern.= _W. R. Alger._
=The human heart is like a millstone in a mill;
when you put wheat under it, it turns, and
grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if
you put no wheat in, it still grinds on; but
then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears
away.= _Luther._
=The human heart is like heaven; the more
angels the more room.= _Fredrika Bremer._
=The human mind cannot go beyond the gift= 45
=of God.= _Wm. Blake._
=The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived
of external resources, sedulously labours to
find within itself the means of happiness,
learns to rely with confidence on its own
exertions, and gains with greater certainty
the power of being happy.= _Zimmermann._
=The human mind is to be treated like a skein
of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously
secure one free end before you can make any
progress in disentangling it.= _Scott._
=The human mind will not be confined to any
limits.= _Goethe._
=The human race is in the best condition when
it has the greatest degree of liberty.= _Dante._
=The human soul is like a bird that is born in
a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural
longings, or obliterate the mysterious
remembrance of its heritage.= _Epes Sargent._
=The human voice has an authority and an= 5
=insinuating property which writing lacks.=
_Joubert._
=The husbandman that laboureth must be first
partaker of the fruits.= _St. Paul._
=The hypocrite shows well and says well, and
himself is the worst thing he hath.= _Bishop
Hall._
=The idea you have once spoken, if even it were
an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from
you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the
vital circulations of yourself and your destiny
and activity are henceforth deprived
of it.= _Carlyle._
=The Ideal always has to grow in the Real,
and to seek out its bed and board there in a
very sorry way.= _Carlyle._
=The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never= 10
=located.= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose;
from which it follows that no youth can be a
master.= _Goethe._
=The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while
remaining two.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=The idle always have a mind to do something.=
_Vauvenargues._
=The ignorant classes are the dangerous
classes.= _Ward Beecher._
=The ignorant peasant without fault is greater= 15
=than the philosopher with many.= _Goldsmith._
=The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to
him who hears the rude but homely incidents
of the road from every traveller.= _Thoreau._
=The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad
history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic,
ill-informed belief.= _Carlyle._
=The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, /
And fear of bad is the best foil to good.=
_Quarles._
=The image of God cut in ebony=, _i.e._, the negro.
_Fuller._
=The imagination, give it the least license, dives= 20
=deeper and soars higher than Nature does.=
_Thoreau._
=The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like
not when she works on what has actually
happened; the airy forms she creates are
welcome as things of their own kind; but
uniting with reality she produces often nothing
but monsters, and seems to me, in
such cases, to fly into direct variance with
reason and common-sense.= _Goethe._
=The imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth.= _Bible._
=The imaginative power always purifies, the
want of it therefore essentially defiles.=
_Ruskin._
=The imbecility of men is always inviting the
impudence of power.= _Emerson._
=The importunities and perplexities of business= 25
=are softness and luxury, compared with the
incessant cravings of vacancy, and the unsatisfactory
expedients of idleness.= _Johnson._
=The impressions of our childhood abide with
us, even in their minutest traces.= _Goethe._
=The indignation which makes verses is, properly
speaking, an inverted love; the love
of some right, some worth, some goodness,
belonging to ourselves or others, which has
been injured, and which this tempestuous
feeling issues forth to defend and revenge.=
_Carlyle._
=The individual and the race are always moving,
and as we drift into new latitudes new
lights open in the heaven more immediately
over us.= _Chapin._
=The individual loves and hatreds, which sum
up existence and life, are the brood of Eros;
for hatred is only love in some form, crossed
and thwarted, and always in nature so much
hostility, so much affection of some kind is
there.= _Ed._
=The individual soul should seek for an intimate= 30
=union with the soul of the universe.=
_Novalis._
=The infant / Mewling and puking in the nurse's
arms. / And then the whining schoolboy,
with his satchel, / And shining morning
face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to
school.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The infinite is more sure than any other fact.
The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it
not at any moment disclose itself to thee,
indubitable, unnameable? Came it never,
like the gleam of preternatural eternal
oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding
through thy heart of hearts?=
_Carlyle._
=The infinitely little have a pride infinitely
great.= _Voltaire._
=The influence which we exercise over other
objects depends on the influence we have
over ourselves.= _Cötvös._
=The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be= 35
=to us as the strokes of the statuary on his
marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape,
and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly
temple.= _Mather._
=The injustice done to an individual is sometimes
of service to the public.= _Junius._
=The ingratitude of the world can never deprive
us of the conscious happiness of having
acted with humanity ourselves.= _Goldsmith._
=The initial virtue of the race consists in the
acknowledgment of their own lowly nature,
and submission to the laws of higher being.=
_Ruskin._
=The ink of the scholar and the blood of the
martyr are of equal value in the eye of
heaven.= _The Koran._
=The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.= 40
_Cowper._
=The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making
or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth,
which is the presence of it; and the belief of
truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the
sovereign good of human nature.= _Bacon._
=The insolence of condescension.= _Burns._
=The insolence of office.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man
understanding.= _Bible._
=The instinctive feeling of a great people is
often wiser than the wisest men.= _Kossuth._
=The instruction merely clever men can give
us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying
for a single day; but flour cannot be
sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground.=
_Goethe._
=The integrity of the upright shall guide them.=
_Bible._
=The intellect has only one failing: it has no
conscience.= _Lowell._
=The intellect of the wise is like glass; it= 5
=admits the light of heaven and reflects it.=
_Hare._
=The intellectual power, through words and
things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous
way.= _Wordsworth._
=The intelligent have a right over the ignorant;
namely, the right of instructing them.=
_Emerson._
=The intolerant man is the real pedant.= _Jean
Paul._
=The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the
miraculous in the common.= _Emerson._
=The inventor of a spinning-jenny is pretty sure= 10
=of his reward in his own day; but the writer
of a true poem, like the apostle of a true
religion, is nearly as sure of the contrary.=
_Carlyle._
=The invisible world is near us; or rather it is
here, in us and about us; were the fleshly
coil removed from our soul, the glories of the
unseen were even now around us; as the
ancients fabled of the spheral music.= _Carlyle._
=The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.=
_Mid. N. Dream_, v. 1.
=The irreligious poet is a monster.= _Burns._
=The= _is_ =of this moment is not the explanation
of the= _is_ =of the next. Except in the idea of
God there is no nexus between the two.= _Ed._
=The Israelitish people never was good for= 15
=much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers,
prophets have a thousand times reproachfully
declared; it possesses few virtues, and
most of the faults of other nations; but in
cohesion, steadfastness, valour, and when
all this would not serve, in obstinate toughness,
it has no match.= _Goethe._
=The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil"
and a dull spirit at once.= _Lavater._
=The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a
nature, that it converts all it takes into its
own nourishment.= _Addison._
=The jest which is expected is already destroyed.=
_Johnson._
=The joy of a peaceful conscience is sown in
tears.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The joys of parents are secret, and so are= 20
=their griefs and fears.= _Bacon._
=The judgment is like a pair of scales, and
evidences like the weights; but the will
holds the balance in its hand; and even a
slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases,
to make the lighter scale appear the heavier.=
_Whately._
=The judgment of the world stands upon matter
of fortune.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=The judgments of the understanding are properly
of force but once, and that in the
strictest cases, and become inaccurate in
some degree when applied to any other.=
_Goethe._
=The just man walketh in his integrity: his
children are blessed after him.= _Bible._
=The justice, / In fair round belly with good= 25
=capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of
formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern
instances; / And so he plays his part.= _As
You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The keeping of bees is like the directing of
sunbeams.= _Thoreau._
=The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy
and defying though he look, he has a helm
which he obeys.= _Emerson._
=The kind fool, of all kinds of fools, is worst.=
_Sir Richard Baker._
=The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind
of action you will get from him.= _Carlyle._
=The king goes as far as he may, not as far as= 30
=he would.= _Sp. Pr._
=The king, like other people, has now and
then shabby errands, and must have shabby
fellows to do them.= _Scott._
=The king may gang the cadger's gate=, _i.e._,
may one day need his help. _Sc. Pr._
=The king protecteth the people, and they
support the greatness of their sovereign.
But protection is better than greatness; for
the one cannot exist without the other.=
_Hitopadesa._
=The king's errand may come in at the cadger's
gate.= _Pr._
=The king's favour is toward a wise servant.= 35
_Bible._
=The king's honour is that of his people. Their
real honour and real interest are the same.=
_Junius._
=The kings of modern thought are dumb.=
_Matthew Arnold._
=The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion;
but his favour is as dew upon the grass.=
_Bible._
=The kingdom of God does not lie in elegance
of speech or fineness of parts, but in innocence
of life and good works.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=The knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,= 40
="vespertina cognitio," but that of
God is a morning knowledge, "matutina
cognitio."= _Emerson, from the Schoolmen._
=The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee
from vanity.= _Cervantes._
=The labour we delight in physics pain.= _Macb._,
ii. 3.
=The labourer is worthy of his hire.= _Jesus._
=The lake's silver dulls with driving clouds.=
_Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The lamp of genius burns quicker than the= 45
=lamp of life.= _Schiller._
=The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._
=The land is mother of us all; nourishes,
shelters, gladdens, lovingly enriches us all;
in how many ways, from our first wakening
to our last sleep on her blessed mother-bosom,
does she, as with blessed mother's
arms, enfold us all!= _Carlyle._
=The land, properly speaking, belongs to these
two: to the Almighty God; and to all his
children of men that have ever worked well
on it, or that shall ever work well on it.=
_Carlyle._
=The language of truth is simple.= _Euripides._
=The largest soul of any country is altogether
its own.= _Ruskin._
=The last act crowns the play.= _Quarles._
=The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection,
even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness
toward the hard, forbearance toward
the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward
the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.=
_Jean Paul._
=The last drop makes the cup run over.= _Pr._
=The last ounce breaks the camel's back.= _Pr._ 5
=The last pale rim or sickle of the moon, which
had once been full, now sinking in the dark
seas.= _Carlyle by the bedside of his dying
mother._
=The last perfection of our faculties is that their
activity, without ceasing to be sure and
earnest, become sport.= _Schiller._
=The last stage of human perversion is when
sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the
indestructible interest we take in men's
doings has become a joy over their faults
and misfortunes.= _Carlyle._
=The last thing that we discover in writing a
book is to know what to put at the beginning.=
_Pascal._
=The Latin word for a flatterer= (_assentator_) =implies= 10
=no more than a person that barely consents;
and indeed such a one, if a man were
able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be
bought too dear.= _Steele._
=The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up
in curing the follies, prejudices, and false
opinions he had contracted in the former.=
_Swift._
=The law always limits every power which it
bestows.= _Hume._
=The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature.=
_Vauvenargues._
=The law has no eyes, the law has no hands,
the law is nothing--nothing but a piece of
paper, till public opinion breathes the breath
of life into the dead letter.= _Macaulay._
=The law is good if a man use it lawfully.= _St._ 15
_Paul._
=The law is light; and reproofs of instruction
are the way of life.= _Bible._
=The law is past depth to those that, without
heed, do plunge into it.= _Timon of Athens_,
iii. 5.
=The law is the friend of the weak.= _Schiller._
=The law is what we must do; the gospel what
God will give.= _Luther._
=The law of nature is the strictest expression= 20
=of necessity.= _Moleschott._
=The law of perseverance is among the deepest
in man; by nature he hates change; seldom
will he quit his old house till it has actually
fallen about his ears.= _Carlyle._
=The law of the wise is a fountain of life.=
_Bible._
=The law often permits what honour prohibits.=
_Saurin._
=The law will never make men free; it is
men who have got to make the law free.=
_Thoreau._
=The law's made to take care o' raskils.= _George_ 25
_Eliot._
=The laws of morality are also those of art.=
_Schumann._
=The laws of nature are just, but terrible.
There is no weak mercy in them.= _Longfellow._
=The laws of nature never vary; in their application
they never hesitate, nor are wanting.=
_Draper._
=The laws undertake to punish only overt acts.=
_Montesquieu._
=The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your= 30
=estate from your enemies, and keeps it to
himself.= _Brougham._
=The leafy blossoming present time springs
from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.=
_Carlyle._
=The lean and slippered pantaloon, / With spectacles
on nose and pouch on side; / His
youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide /
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly
voice / Turning again towards childish treble,
pipes / And whistles in his sound.= _As You
Like It_, ii. 7.
=The learned understand the reason of the art,
the unlearned feel the pleasure.= _Quinct._
=The legacy of heroes--the memory of a great
name and the inheritance of a great example.=
_Disraeli._
=The legal and proper mercy of a king of= 35
=England may remit the punishment, but
ought not to stop the trial.= _Junius._
=The lenient hand of time is daily and hourly
either lightening the burden or making us
insensible to the weight.= _Burns._
=The less a man thinks or knows about his
virtues the better we like him.= _Emerson._
=The less men think the more they talk.= _Montesquieu._
=The less routine the more of life.= _A. B. Alcott._
=The less the wise man pleases himself, the= 40
=more the world esteems him.= _Gellert._
=The less we deserve good fortune, the more
we hope for it.= _Molière._
=The less we have to do with our sins the
better.= _Emerson._
=The lessons of adversity are not always salutary;
sometimes they soften and amend, but
as often they indurate and pervert.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.=
_St. Paul._
=The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by= 45
=liberal things shall he stand.= _Bible._
=The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that
watereth shall be watered also himself.=
_Bible._
=The liberty of writing letters with too careless
a hand is apt to betray persons into imprudence
in what they write.= _Blair._
=The life is more than meat, and the body is
more than raiment.= _Jesus._
=The life of a fool is worse than death.= _Apocrypha._
=The life of a man is tormented not by things,= 50
=but by opinions of things.= _Immermann._
=The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of
a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then
languid and covered, at last advancing by
the tumbling over and over of its frozen
blocks.= _Ruskin._
=The life of all gods figures itself to us as a
sublime sadness,--earnestness of infinite
battle against infinite labour.= _Carlyle._
=The life of an animal, until the hour of his
death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations
and depressions, in unions and separations.=
_Hitopadesa._
=The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies,
of actions that, from his own point of
view, are absurd and foolish.= _Renan._
=The life of every man is a diary in which he
means to write one story, and writes another.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=The life of every man is as the well-spring of
a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed
plain to all, but whose ulterior course and
destination, as it winds through the expanses
of infinite years, only the omniscient
can discern.= _Carlyle._
=The life of man is a journey; a journey that= 5
=must be travelled, however bad the roads or
the accommodation.= _Goldsmith._
=The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection
with the general history of the world
in his time. It was a private life; his
teaching was a teaching for individuals.=
_Goethe._
=The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded,
would be interesting to the highest.=
_Quoted by Carlyle._
=The life which renews a man springs ever
from within.= _Goethe._
=The light by which we see in this world
comes out from the soul of the observer.=
_Emerson._
=The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.= 10
_George Eliot._
=The light of friendship is like the light of
phosphorus--seen plainest when all around
is dark.= _Crowell._
=The light of the body is the eye; if therefore
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be
full of light.= _Jesus._
=The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.= _St. John._
=The light that a man receiveth by counsel from
another is drier and purer than that which
cometh from his own understanding and
judgment, which is ever infused and drenched
in his affections and customs.= _Bacon._
=The light (which you refuse to take in) returns= 15
=on you, condensed into lightning, which there
is not any skin whatever too thick for taking
in.= _Carlyle._
=The lightning is the shorthand of the storm, /
That tells of chaos.= _Eric Mackay._
=The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on
my soul and drove away its blots, as dead
hands heal eruptions of the skin.= _Jean
Paul._
=The line of life is a ragged diagonal between
duty and desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=The lion is not so fierce as painted.= _Fuller._
=The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools= 20
=die for want of wisdom.= _Bible._
=The litigant, unlike the goose, never gets
trust= (trussed), =although he may be roasted
and dished.= _John Willock._
=The little done vanishes from the sight of
man who looks forward to what is still to do.=
_Goethe._
=The little foolery that wise men have makes a
great show.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=The little man is still a man.= _Goethe._
=The little mind will not by daily intercourse= 25
=with great minds become one inch greater;
but the noble man ... will, by a knowledge
of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated
natures, everyday make a visible approximation
to similar greatness.= _Goethe._
=The little that a just man hath is better than
the riches of many wicked.= _Bible._
=The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing
between evils.= _Junius._
=The loftier the building the deeper must the
foundation be laid.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same
sort of things with the meanest, only from
higher grounds and by higher paths.= _Jean
Paul._
=The loftiest of our race are those who have= 30
=had the profoundest grief, because they have
had the profoundest sympathies.= _Henry
Giles._
=The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the
later it will be in coming.= _Schopenhauer._
=The longer life the more offence, / The more
offence the greater pain, / The greater
pain the less defence, / The less defence
the lesser gain.= _Sir T. Wyatt._
=The longer we live and the more we think, the
higher value we learn to put on the friendship
and tenderness of parents and of friends.=
_Johnson._
=The longer you read the Bible the more you
will like it.= _Romaine._
=The longest day soon comes to an end.= _Pr._ 35
=The longest life is scarcely longer than the
shortest, if we think of the eternity that encircles
both.= _Carlyle._
=The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.=
_Emerson._
=The look of a king is itself a deed.= _Jean
Paul._
=The loom of Fortune weaves the fine and
coarsest web.= _R. Southwell._
=The loom of life never stops; and the pattern= 40
=which was weaving when the sun went down
in the evening is weaving when it comes up
to-morrow.= _Ward Beecher._
=The Lord bestoweth his blessings where he
findeth the vessels empty.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away:
blessed be the name of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him.=
_Bible._
=The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him
actions are weighed.= _Bible._
=The Lord will not suffer the soul of the= 45
=righteous to famish: but he casteth away
the substance of the wicked.= _Bible._
=The loss of territory, or of a wise and virtuous
servant, is a great loss, ... for servants are
not easily to be found.= _Hitopadesa._
=The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing
thereof is of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The love of country produces good manners,
and good manners also love of country. The
less we satisfy our particular passions, the
more we leave to our general.= _Montesquieu._
=The love of gain never made a painter; but it
has marred many.= _Washington Allston._
=The love of God is broader than the measure= 50
=of man's mind.= _F. W. Faber._
=The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the
man of letters.= _Hazlitt._
=The love of money is the root of all evil.= _St.
Paul._
=The love season is the carnival of egoism, and
it brings the touchstone to our natures.=
_George Meredith._
=The lover has more senses and finer senses
than others.= _Emerson._
=The lover, / Sighing like a furnace, with a= 5
=woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow.=
_As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The lower a man descends in his love, the
higher he lifts his life.= _W. R. Alger._
=The lower has oftentimes to be with sorrow
sacrificed to the higher duties of the soul.=
_Ed._
=The lower nature must always be denied when
you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.=
_Ward Beecher._
=The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of
imagination all compact.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
v. 1.
=The lust of fame is the last that a wise man= 10
=shakes off.= _Tac._
=The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously,
but the epic poet, who shall sing of
the gods and their descent unto men, must
drink water out of a wooden bowl.= _Emerson._
=The magic of the pen lies in the concentration
of your thoughts upon one object.= _G. H.
Lewes._
=The magic power of love consists in its ennobling
whatever its breath touches, like
the sun whose golden ray transmutes even
thunderclouds into gold.= _Grillparzer._
=The main enterprise of the world for splendour,
for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.= _Emerson._
=The majority have no other reason for their= 15
=opinions than that they are the fashion.=
_Johnson._
=The make-weight! The make-weight! which
fate throws into the balance for us at every
happiness! It requires much courage not to
be down-hearted in this world.= _Goethe._
=The malicious sneer is improperly called
laughter.= _Goldsmith._
=The man at the head of the house can mar the
pleasure of the household; but he cannot
make it. That must rest with the woman,
and it is her greatest privilege.= _Helps._
=The man comes before the citizen, and our
future is greater than both.= _Jean Paul._
=The man is only half himself, the other half= 20
=is his expression.= _Emerson._
=The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually
as well as economically the artificer
of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances
are the element he is appointed to
live and work in; so that in a no less genuine
sense it can be said circumstances make the
man.= _Carlyle._
=The man of consequence and fashion shall
richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod
and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand;
while a poor fellow labours under a sense of
gratitude, which, like copper coin, though
it loads the bearer, is yet of small account
in the currency and commerce of the world.=
_Burns._
=The man of genius can be more easily misinstructed=
(_verbildet_) =and driven far more
violently into false courses than a man of
ordinary capability.= _Goethe._
=The man of genius, like a dog with a bone,
sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out
no sign of refreshment for man and beast,
but says, by all possible hints and signs,
"I wish to be alone--good-bye--farewell!"=
_Thoreau._
=The man of good common-sense may, if he= 25
=pleases, in his particular station of life, most
certainly be rich.= _Eustace Budgell._
=The man of intellect at the top of affairs; this
is the aim of all institutions and revolutions,
if they have any.= _Carlyle._
=The man of intellect is lost unless he unites
energy of character to intellect. When we
have the lantern of Diogenes we must have
his staff.= _Chamfort._
=The man of wisdom is the man of years.=
_Young._
=The man should make the hour, not this the
man.= _Tennyson._
=The man that blushes is not quite a brute.= 30
_Young._
=The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor
is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, /
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; /
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, /
And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no
such man be trusted.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=The man that makes a character makes foes.=
_Young._
=The man that stands by himself, the universe
stands also.= _Emerson._
=The man that wandereth out of the way of
understanding shall remain in the congregation
of the dead.= _Bible._
=The man to whom the universe does not reveal= 35
=directly what relation it has to him, whose
heart does not tell him what he owes to
himself and others--that man will scarcely
learn it out of books; which generally do
little more than give our errors names.=
_Goethe._
=The man truly proud thinks honours below his
merit, and scorns to boast.= _Swift._
=The man= (Napoleon) =was a divine missionary,
though unconscious of it; and preached,
through the cannon's throat, that great
doctrine, "La carrière ouverte aux talens,"
"The tools to him that can handle them,"
which is our ultimate political evangel,
wherein alone can liberty lie.= _Carlyle._
=The man who can be nothing but serious or
nothing but merry is but half a man.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=The man who can thank himself alone for the
happiness he enjoys is truly blest.= _Goldsmith._
=The man who cannot be a Christian in the= 40
=place where he is, cannot be a Christian
anywhere.= _Ward Beecher._
=The man who cannot blush, and who has no
feelings of fear, has reached the acme of
impudence.= _Menander._
=The man who cannot enjoy his natural gifts in
silence, and find his reward in the exercise
of them, but must wait and hope for their
recognition by others, must expect to reap
only disappointment and vexation.= _Goethe._
=The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for
treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his
own whole life is already a treason and a
stratagem.= _Carlyle._
=The man who cannot sometimes endure his
own company must have a bad heart or a
deficient intellect.= (?)
=The man who cannot wonder, who does not
habitually wonder (and worship), were he
president of innumerable royal societies, and
carried the whole "Méchanique Céleste"
and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of
all laboratories and observatories with their
results, in his single head, is but a pair of
spectacles behind which there is no eye.=
_Carlyle._
=The man who does not know when to die, does
not know how to live.= _Ruskin._
=The man who does not learn to live while he is= 5
=getting a living is a poorer man after his
wealth is won than he was before.= _J. G.
Holland._
=The man who fears not death will start at no
shadows.= _Gr. Pr._
=The man who has imagination without learning
has wings without feet.= _Pr._
=The man who has no enemies has no following.=
_Donn Piatt._
=The man who has nothing to boast of but his
illustrious ancestry is like a potato,--the
only good belonging to him is underground.=
_Sir Thomas Overbury._
=The man who in this world can keep the whiteness= 10
=of his soul is not likely to lose it in any
other.= _Alex. Smith._
=The man who in wavering times is inclined to
be wavering only increases the evil, and
spreads it wider and wider; but the man
of firm decision fashions the universe.=
_Goethe._
=The man who insists upon seeing with perfect
clearness before he decides, never decides.=
_Amiel._
=The man who invented "Ifs" and "Buts"
must have first made gold out of straw choppings.=
_G. A. Bürger._
=The man who is always fortunate cannot
easily have a great reverence for virtue.=
_Cic._
=The man who is born with a talent which he= 15
=is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness
in using it.= _Goethe._
=The man who is in a hurry to see the full
effects of his own tillage must cultivate
annuals, and not forest trees.= _Whately._
=The man who leaves home to mend himself
and others is a philosopher; but he who
goes from country to country, guided by the
blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.=
_Goldsmith._
=The man who lives by hope will die by despair.=
_It. Pr._
=The man who pauses in his honesty wants
little of a villain.= _H. Martyn._
=The man who small things scorns will next, /= 20
=By things still smaller be perplexed.= _Goethe._
=The man who will live above his present circumstances
is in great danger of living in a
little time much beneath them, or, as the
Italian proverb says, "The man who lives
by hope will die by despair."= _Addison._
=The man who works at home helps society
at large with somewhat more of certainty
than he who devotes himself to charities.=
_Emerson._
=The man who writes for fools is always sure
of a large audience.= _Schopenhauer._
=The man whom grown-up people love, children
love still more.= _Jean Paul._
=The manifestation of one's own superiority= 25
=may render the purchase too dear, by being
bought at the terrible price of our neighbour's
dislike.= _Lover._
=The manners of the ill-mannered are never so
odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they
are to their own nearest kindred.= _P. G.
Hamerton._
=The many still must labour for the one! It is
Nature's doom.= _Byron._
=The march of intellect is proceeding at quick
time; and if its progress be not accompanied
by a corresponding improvement in morals
and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the
more violence will you be hurried down the
road to ruin.= _Southey._
=The march of intellect, which licks all the
world into shape, has reached even the devil.=
_Goethe._
=The march of the human mind is slow.= _Burke._ 30
=The mark of the man of the world is absence
of pretension. He does not make a speech;
he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag,
is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at
all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables,
hugs his fact. He calls his employment by
its lowest name, and so takes from evil
tongues their sharpest weapon.= _Emerson._
=The marks of attachment, even to a fault, are
an accumulation of virtues.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mass of men consulted at hustings, upon
any high matter whatsoever, is as ugly an
exhibition of human study as the world sees.=
_Carlyle._
=The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a
man.= _Henry Mackenzie._
=The master-spirit who can rule the storm is= 35
=great; but he is much greater who can both
raise and rule it.= _E. L. Magoon._
=The mastiff is quiet while curs are yelping.=
_Pr._
=The material wealth of a country is the portion
of its possessions which feeds and educates
good men and women in it.= _Ruskin._
=The May of our life blooms once, and not
again.= _Schiller._
=The mean of true valour lies between the extremes
of cowardice and rashness.= _Cervantes._
=The means that Heaven yields must be embraced,= 40
=/ And not neglected.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=The measure of a master is his success in
bringing all men round to his opinion twenty
years later.= _Emerson._
=The mechanical occupations of man, the watching
any object, as it were, coming into existence
by manual labour, is a very pleasant way
of passing one's time, but our own activity
is at the moment nil. It is almost the same
as with smoking tobacco.= _Goethe._
=The meditative heart / Attends the warning
of each day and hour, / And practises in
secret every virtue.= _Goethe._
=The meek shall inherit the earth.= _Jesus._
=The memory of absent friends becomes dimmed,
although not effaced by time. The distractions
of our life, acquaintance with fresh
objects, in short, every change in our condition,
works upon our hearts as dust and
smoke upon a painting, making the finely
drawn lines quite imperceptible, whilst one
does not know how it happens.= _Goethe._
=The memory of the just is blessed.= _Bible._
=The men I am afraid of are the men who believe
everything, subscribe to everything,
and vote for everything.= _Bp. Shipley._
=The merchant who was at first busy in acquiring
money ceases to grow richer from
the time when he makes it his business only
to count it.= _Johnson._
=The merciful shall obtain mercy.= _Jesus._ 5
=The mere existence and necessity of a philosophy
is an evil.= _Carlyle._
=The mere reality of life would be inconceivably
poor without the charm of fancy, which
brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain
fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener
to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering
hue than one which inspires terror.= _W. v.
Humboldt._
=The merit of originality is not novelty, it is
sincerity. The believing man is the original
man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it
for himself, not for another.= _Carlyle._
=The meteor flag of England, / Shall yet terrific
burn, / Till danger's troubled night depart, /
And the star of peace return.= _Campbell._
=The milder virtues subsist only in co-existence= 10
=with the severer, and the heart which pronounces
a blessing on the poor and the merciful
utters with the same breath sentence
of excommunication against all who are
proud-spirited and cruel-hearted.= _Ed._
=The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.= _Pr._
=The mind becomes bankrupt under too large
obligations. All additional benefits lessen
every hope of future returns, and bar up
every avenue that leads to tenderness.= _Goldsmith._
=The mind can make / Substance, and people
planets of its own / With beings brighter
than have been, and give / A breath to forms
that can outlive all flesh.= _Byron._
=The mind conceives with pain, but it brings
forth with delight.= _Joubert._
=The mind content both crown and kingdom is.= 15
_Robert Greene._
=The mind goes antagonising on, and never
prospers but by fits.= _Emerson._
=The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere
purposes, though they end as they begin by
airy contemplation.= _Johnson._
=The mind is ever ingenious in making its own
distress.= _Goldsmith._
=The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can
make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.=
_Milton._
=The mind must not yield to the body.= _Goethe._ 20
=The mind of a fool is empty; and everything
is empty where there is poverty.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mind of a good man doth not alter, even
when he is in distress; the waters of the
ocean are not to be heated by a torch of
straw.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mind of man is no inert receptacle of
knowledge, but absorbs and incorporates
into its own constitution the ideas which it
receives.= _H. Lecky._
=The mind of the greatest man on earth is not
so independent of circumstances as not to
feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing
noise about him; it does not need the report
of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The
creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough.
Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now;
a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough
to unfit him for giving good counsel.= _Pascal._
=The mind profits by the wrecks of every= 25
=passion, and we may measure our road to
wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=The mind that made the world is not one mind,
but= _the_ =mind.= _Emerson._
=The minds of some of our statesmen, like the
pupil of the human eye, contract themselves
the more the stronger light there is shed
upon them.= _Moore._
=The mind's the standard of the man.= _Watts._
=The miracles which Christ and His disciples
wrought were the scaffolding, not the building.
The scaffolding is removed as soon as
the building is finished.= _Lessing._
=The miser is as much in want of that which he= 30
=has as of that which he has not.= _Pub. Syr._
=The miser is niggardly in death; two glances
he casts on his coffin and a thousand with
dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures.=
_Gellert._
=The miserable have no other medicine, / But
only hope.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The misery of man proceeds not from any
single crush of overwhelming evil, but from
small vexations continually repeated.= _Johnson._
=The misfortune in the state is that nobody can
enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must
govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy
what has been produced, but that every one
wants to reproduce on his own account.=
_Goethe._
=The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to= 35
=be analysed.= _Emerson._
=The mob has many heads, but no brains.= _Pr._
=The mob is a monster, with the hands of
Briareus but the head of Polyphemus,--strong
to execute, but blind to perceive.=
_Colton._
=The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is
through its nose, it will even dance under
your cudgel; but should the ring slip and
you lose your hold, the brute will turn and
rend you.= _Jane Porter._
=(The mob is) the scum that rises uppermost
when the nation boils.= _Dryden._
=The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the= 40
=careful matron, are much more serviceable
in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering
heroines, or virago queens.= _Goldsmith._
=The moment an ill can be patiently borne, it is
disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.=
_Ward Beecher._
=The moment must be pregnant and sufficient
to itself if it is to become a worthy segment
of time and eternity.= _Goethe._
=The moment there is a bargain over the pottage
the family relation is dissolved.= _Ruskin._
=The moment which is the cradle of the future
is also the grave of the past.= _Grillparzer._
=The moon doth not withhold the light even
from the cottage of a Chandala= (outcast).
_Hitopadesa._
=The moon that shone in Paradise.= _Hans Andersen._
=The moral difference between a man and a
beast is, that the one acts primarily for use,
and the other for pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=The morality of a king is not to be measured= 5
=by vulgar rules. There are faults which do
him honour, and virtues that disgrace him.=
_Junius._
=The morality of girls is custom, not principle.=
_Jean Paul._
=The morality of some people is in remnants--never
enough to make a coat.= _Joubert._
=The more a man has in himself the less he will
want from other people--the less, indeed,
other people can be to him.= _Schopenhauer._
=The more a man lives, the more he suffers.=
_Amiel._
=The more angels the more room.= _Swedenborg._ 10
=The more business a man has to do, the more
he is able to accomplish; for he learns to
economise his time.= _Judge Hale._
=The more bustling the streets become, the
more quietly one moves.= _Goethe._
=The more fair and crystal is the sky, / The
uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.= _Rich. II._,
i. 1.
=The more generally persons are pleasing, the
less profoundly do they please.= _H. Beyle._
=The more haste, the worse speed.= _Pr._ 15
=The more honesty a man has, the less he
affects the air of a saint.= _Lavater._
=The more laws you accept, the fewer penalties
you will have to endure, and the fewer punishments
to enforce.= _Ruskin._
=The more men refine upon pleasure, the less
will they indulge in excesses of any kind.=
_Hume._
=The more of the solid there is in a man, the
less does he act the balloon.= _Spurgeon._
=The more powerful the obstacle, the more= 20
=glory we have in overcoming it; and the
difficulties with which we are met are the
maids of honour which set off virtue.= _Molière._
=The more profound the thought, the more
burdensome.= _Emerson._
=The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he
is.= _Anon._
=The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass
of our life, the clearer we should see
through it.= _Jean Paul._
=The more sinful a man feels himself, the more
Christian he is.= _Novalis._
=The more the soul admires, the more it is= 25
=exalted.= _Mme. de Krudener._
=The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so
much the more dost thou resemble the gods.=
_Goethe._
=The more we do, the more we can do; the
more busy we are, the more leisure we
have.= _Hazlitt._
=The more we have read, the more we have
learned, the more we have meditated, the
better conditioned we are to affirm that we
know nothing.= _Voltaire._
=The more we know, the greater our thirst for
knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of
waters, opens its leaves and expands its
petals at the first pattering of showers, and
rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker
sympathy than the parched shrub in a sandy
desert.= _Coleridge._
=The more we work, the more we shall be= 30
=trodden down.= _Fr. Peasant Pr._
=The more weakness, the more falsehood;
strength goes straight; every cannon-ball
that has in it hollows and holes goes
crooked. Weaklings must lie.= _Jean Paul._
=The more you are talked about, the less powerful
you are.= _Disraeli._
=The morning stars sang together, and all the
sons of God shouted for joy.= _Bible._
=The most advanced nations are always those
who navigate the most.= _Emerson._
=The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a= 35
=clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an
obscure firmament.= _Bovee._
=The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual
cheerfulness.= _Montaigne._
=The most civilised are as near to barbarism as
the most polished steel to rust. Nations,
like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.=
_Rivarol._
=The most cursory observation shows that a
degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent
force of character.= _Tuckerman._
=The most delightful letter does not possess a
hundredth part of the charm of a conversation.=
_Goethe._
=The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.= 40
_Thales._
=The most elevated sensation of music arises
from a confused perception of ideal or visionary
beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently
perceivable to fire the imagination, but not
clear enough to become an object of knowledge.=
_James Usher._
=The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not
preach a gospel, but keep describing how it
should and might be preached; to awaken
the sacred fire of faith, as by a sacred contagion,
is not their endeavour, but, at most,
to describe how faith shows and acts, and
scientifically distinguish true faith from false.=
_Carlyle in_ 1831.
=The most enthusiastic mystics were women.=
_Jean Paul._
=The most essential fact about a man is the
constitution of his consciousness.= _Schopenhauer._
=The most finished man of the world is he who= 45
=is never irresolute and never in a hurry.=
_Schopenhauer._
=The most gladsome thing in the world is that
few of us fall very low; the saddest that,
with such capabilities, we seldom rise high.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=The most happy man is he who knows how to
bring into relation the end and the beginning
of his life.= _Goethe._
=The most learned are often the most narrow-minded
men.= _Hazlitt._
=The most important moment in man's life is
certainly not the last.= _Jean Paul._
=The most important part of education is right= 50
=training in the nursery.= _Plato._
=The most important period in the life of an
individual is that of his development. Later
on, commences his conflict with the world,
and this is of interest only so far as anything
grows out of it.= _Goethe._
=The most important thing is to learn to rule
one's self.= _Goethe._
=The most original modern authors are not so
because they advance what is new, but
simply because they know how to put what
they have to say as if it had never been said
before.= _Goethe._
=The most objectionable people are the quibbling
investigators and the crotchety theorists;
their endeavours are petty and complicated,
their hypotheses abstruse and strange.=
_Goethe._
=The most part of all the misery and mischief,= 5
=of all that is denominated evil, in the world,
arises from the face that men are too remiss
to get a proper knowledge of their aims,
and when they do know them, to work intensely
in attaining them.= _Goethe._
=The most significant feature in the history of
an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming
a great man.= _Carlyle._
=The most sorrowful occurrence often, through
the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable
turn for our happiness; the succession
of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined
like sleep and waking, neither without the
other, and one for the sake of the other.=
_Goethe._
=The most unhappy and frail of all creatures is
man, and yet he is the proudest.= _Montaigne._
=The most universal quality is diversity.= _Montaigne._
=The most virtuous of all men is he that contents= 10
=himself with being virtuous without
seeking to appear so.= _Plato._
=The mother-grace of all the graces is Christian
good-will.= _Ward Beecher._
=The mother of the useful arts is necessity; that
of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the
former has intellect; the latter, genius, which
itself is a kind of luxury.= _Schopenhauer._
=The mother's heart is always with her children.=
_Pr._
=The mother's yearning feels the presence of
the cherished child even in the degraded
man.= _George Eliot._
=The motto of chivalry is also the motto of= 15
=wisdom; to serve all and love but one.= _Balzac._
=The mouth of a righteous man is a well of
life: but violence covereth the mouth of the
wicked.= _Bible._
=The movement of sound, such as will reach
the soul for the education of it in virtue, we
call Music.= _Plato._
=The multiplicity of facts and writings is become
so great, that everything must soon
be reduced to extracts.= _Voltaire._
=The multiplying villanies of natures / Do swarm
upon him.= _Macb._, i. 2.
=The multitude have no habit of self-reliance= 20
=or original action.= _Emerson._
=The multitude is always in the wrong.= _Earl
of Roscommon._
=The multitude of fools is a protection to the
wise.= _Cicero._
=The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized
with fear, contemptible and vain.= _Mallet._
=The multitude which does not reduce itself
to unity is confusion; the unity which does
not depend upon the multitude is tyranny.=
_Pascal._
=The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us= 25
=in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances.=
_Novalis._
=The music in my heart I bore / Long after it
was heard no more.= _Wordsworth._
=The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant
treasury of vast results. Like the germ in
the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes;
and its fruit will spring up after it
has been buried for long ages.= _Chapin._
=The mystery of a person is ever divine to him
that has a sense for the godlike.= _Carlyle._
=The nation is governed by all that has tongue
in the nation: democracy is virtually there.=
_Carlyle._
=The nation is worth nothing which does not= 30
=joyfully stake its all on its honour.= _Schiller._
=The native land of the poet's poetic powers
and poetic action is the good, noble, and
beautiful, which is confined to no particular
province or country, and which he seizes
upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein
is he like the eagle.= _Goethe._
=The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is
to refine and elevate the mind.= _Washington
Irving._
=The natural qualities pass over all others and
mount upon the head.= _Hitopadesa._
=The near explains the far.= _Emerson._
=The nearer the church the farther from God.= _Pr._ 35
=The nearer we approach the goal of life, the
better we begin to understand the true value
of our existence, and the real weight of our
opinions.= _Burke._
=The necessities of my heart always give the
cold philosophisings the lie.= _Burns._
=The necessities of things are sterner stuff than
the hopes of men.= _Disraeli._
=The neck on which diamonds might have
worthily sparkled will look less tempting
when the biting winter has hung icicles
there for gems.= _S. Lover._
=The negation of will and desire is the only= 40
=road to deliverance.= _Schopenhauer._
=The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that
never blenches, the thought that never wanders--these
are the masters of victory.= _Burke._
=The nerves, they are the man.= _Cabanis._
=The never-absent mop in one hand, and yet no
effects of it visible anywhere.= _Thoreau._
=The new man is always in a new time, under
new conditions; his course is the fac-simile
of no prior one, but is by its nature original.=
_Carlyle._
=The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a= 45
=battle won.= _Wellington._
=The night cometh, when no man can work.=
_Jesus._
=The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let
us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light.= _St.
Paul._
=The night is for the day, but the day is not for
the night.= _Emerson._
=The night is long that never finds the day.=
_Macb._, iv. 2.
=The night shows stars and women in a better
light.= _Byron._
=The nobility of life is work. We live in a
working world. The lazy and idle man does
not count in the plan of campaign. "My
Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Let
that text be enough.= _Prof. Blackie, to young
men._
=The noble character at certain moments may
resign himself to his emotions; the well-bred,
never.= _Goethe._
=The noble ones who have lived among us
have not left us; they only truly came to us
when they departed, and they were then
first kissed by us into immortality.= _Ed._
=The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the= 5
=slower it is in attaining maturity.= _Schopenhauer._
=The nobler the virtue is, the more eager and
generous resolution do thou express of
attaining to it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The noblest charms of music, though real and
affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be
collected into a distinct idea. Harmony is
always understood by the crowd, and almost
always mistaken by musicians.= _James Usher._
=The noblest mind the best contentment hath.=
_Spenser._
=The noblest vengeance is to forgive.= _Pr._
=The noblest works and foundations have proceeded= 10
=from childless men, which have sought
to express the images of their minds where
those of their bodies have failed.= _Bacon._
=The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an
angry countenance a backbiting tongue.=
_Bible._
=The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near
is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy
Land, / And beyond is the bosom of God.=
_Lord Lytton._
=The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's
cake.= _Fris. Pr._
=The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding
crash, it falls.= _Carlyle._
=The object of all true policy and true economy= 15
=is, the utmost multitude of good men on
every given space of ground.= _Ruskin._
=The object of art is to crystallise emotion into
thought and then to fix it in form.= _Delsarte._
=The object of preaching is constantly to remind
mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting;
not to supply the defects of human
intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of
human resolutions.= _Sydney Smith._
=The object of reading is not to dip into everything
that even wise men have ever written.=
_John Morley._
=The object of the poet is, and must be, to
"instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing
this man and that man; only by pleasing
man, by speaking to the pure nature of man,
can any real "instruction," in this sense, be
conveyed.= _Carlyle._
=The object of the politician is expediency,= 20
=and his duty is to adapt his measures to the
often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating
conception of the nation. The object, on
the other hand, of the philosopher is truth,
and his duty is to push every principle which
he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences,
regardless of the results that may
follow.= _H. Lecky._
=The object of true religion should be to impress
the principles of morality deeply in the soul.=
_Leibnitz._
=The obligation of veracity may be made out
from the direct ill consequences of lying to
social happiness.= _Paley._
=The obscure is what transcends us, and what
imposes itself upon us by transcending us.=
_Renan._
=The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, /
The stormy passion of its mighty heart.=
_L. C. Moulton._
=The ocean may have bounds.= _Hitopadesa._ 25
=The offender never pardons.= _George Herbert._
=The old fox is caught at last.= _Pr._
=The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but
the great blue dome that hangs over all is
better than any Cologne one.= _Carlyle._
=The old never dies till this happen, till all the
soul of good that was in it get itself transfused
into the practical new.= _Carlyle._
=The old order changeth, yielding place to= 30
=new, / And God fulfils himself in many
ways, / Lest one good custom should corrupt
the world.= _Tennyson._
=The old prose writers wrote as if they were
speaking to an audience; while among us
prose is invariably written for the eye alone.=
_Niebuhr._
=The older we get the more we must limit ourselves,
if we wish to be active.= _Goethe._
=The oldest, and indeed only true, order of
nobility known under the stars, is that of
just men and sons of God, in opposition to
unjust men and sons of Belial, which latter
indeed are second oldest, and yet a very
unvenerable order.= _Carlyle._
=The oldest in years is not always the most
experienced, and he who has suffered most
has not always the best manners.= _Bodenstedt._
=The one enemy we have in this universe is= 35
=stupidity, darkness of mind; of which darkness
there are many sources, every sin a
source, and probably self-conceit the chief
source.= _Carlyle._
=The one essential point= (in regard to a wrong)
=is to know that it is wrong; how to get out
of it you can decide afterwards at your
leisure.= _Ruskin._
=The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge
is the power of teaching.= _Arist._
=The one intolerable sort of slavery, over which
the very gods weep, is the slavery of the
strong to the weak; of the great and noble-minded
to the small and mean; the slavery
of wisdom to folly.= _Carlyle._
=The one prudence in life is concentration.=
_Emerson._
=The one thing of value in the world is the= 40
=active soul.= _Emerson._
=The one unhappiness of a man is that he cannot
work, that he cannot get his destiny as a
man fulfilled.= _Carlyle._
=The only competition worthy a wise man is
with himself.= _Mrs. Jamieson._
=The only disadvantage of an honest heart is
its credulity.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=The only evolution of any really human interest,
and worthy of any human regard, is the evolution
that springs from resolution and the birth
of freedom in the self-conscious soul.= _Ed._
=The only failure a man ought to fear is failure
in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.=
_George Eliot._
=The only faith that wears well, and holds its
colour in all weathers, is that which is woven
of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant
of experience.= _Lowell._
=The only fence against the world is a thorough
knowledge of it.= _Locke._
=The only freedom which deserves the name is
that of pursuing our own good in our own
way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive
others of this, or impede their efforts to
obtain it.= _J. S. Mill._
=The only genuine Romance for grown persons= 5
=is Reality.= _Carlyle._
=The only gift is a portion of thyself.= _Emerson._
=The only happiness a brave man ever troubled
himself with asking much about was, happiness
enough to get his work done.= _Carlyle._
=The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty
connected with order.= _Burke._
=The only means of overcoming adversities is a
fresh activity.= _Goethe._
=The only medicine which does women more= 10
=good than harm is dress.= _Jean Paul._
=The only ornament of old age is virtue.=
_Amyot._
=The only poetry is history, could we tell it
aright.= _Carlyle._
=The only point now is what a man weighs in
the scale of humanity; all the rest is nought.
A coat with a star, and a chariot with six
horses, at all events, imposes on the rudest
multitude only, and scarcely that.= _Goethe._
=The only progress which is really effective
depends, not upon the bounty of Nature, but
upon the energy of man.= _Buckle._
=The only satisfaction of the will is that it= 15
=encounters with no resistance.= _Schopenhauer._
=The only school of genuine moral sentiment is
society between equals.= _J. S. Mill._
=The only serious and formidable thing in
Nature is will.= _Emerson._
=The only sin which we never forgive in each
other is difference of opinion.= _Emerson._
=The only solid instruction is that which the
pupil brings from his own depths; the true
instruction is not that which transmits notions
wholly formed, but that which renders
him capable of forming for himself good
opinions.= _Degerando._
=The only substance properly so called is the= 20
=soul.= _Amiel._
=The only teller of news is the poet.= _Emerson._
=The only thing grief has taught me is to know
how shallow it is.= _Emerson._
=The only true principle for humanity is justice.=
_Amiel._
=The only true source of politeness is consideration.=
_Simms._
=The only victory over love is flight.= _Napoleon._ 25
=The only way to have a friend is to be one.=
_Emerson._
=The only way to understand the difficult parts
of the Bible is first to read and obey the
easy ones.= _Ruskin._
=The opinions of men are as many and as different
as their persons; the greatest diligence
and most prudent conduct can never please
them all.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The opportunity to do mischief is found a
hundred times a day, and that of doing
good once a year.= _Voltaire._
=The ordinary man places life's happiness in= 30
=things external to him; his centre of gravity
is not in himself.= _Schopenhauer._
=The ornament of a house is the friends who
frequent it.= _Emerson._
=The outer passes away; the inmost is the
same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.= _Carlyle._
=The over-curious are not over-wise.= _Massinger._
=The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.= _Pr._
=The owl sees the sunshine and winks in its= 35
=nest.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=The ox lies still while the geese are hissing.= _Pr._
=The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison
with that of repentance; for the one
stands in presence of the vast open future,
whilst the other has the irrevocable past
closed behind it.= _Schopenhauer._
=The pain that any one actually feels is still of
all others the worst.= _Locke._
=The pain which conscience gives the man who
has already done wrong is soon got over.
Conscience is a coward; and those faults it
has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom
has justice enough to accuse.= _Goldsmith._
=The pains of power are real, its pleasures are= 40
=imaginary.= _Colton._
=The painful warrior famousèd for fight, / After
a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the
books of honour razèd quite, / And all the
rest forgot for which he toil'd.= _Shakespeare._
=The painter should grind his own colours; the
architect work in the mason's yard with his
men; the master-manufacturer be himself a
more skilful operator than any man in his
mills; and the distinction between one man
and another be only in experience and skill,
and the authority and wealth which these
must naturally and justly obtain.= _Ruskin._
=The parasite courtier in the palace is the
legitimate father of the tyrant.= _Brougham._
=The parcel of books, if they are well chosen,
... awakens within us the diviner mind, and
rouses us to a consciousness of what is best
in others and ourselves.= _John Morley._
=The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit= 45
=conferred, put the offender under an obligation;
and thus direct advantage at once
accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head.=
_Goethe._
=The particular is the universal seen under
special limitations.= _Goethe._
=The passions are only exaggerated vices or
virtues.= _Goethe._
=The passions are the only orators who never
fail to persuade.= _La Roche._
=The passions, by grace of the supernal and
also of the infernal powers (for both have a
hand in it), can never fail us.= _Carlyle._
=The passions may be likened to blood horses,= 50
=that need training and the curb only to
enable them when they carry to achieve
most glorious triumphs.= _Simms._
=The passions of mankind are partly protective,
partly beneficent, like the chaff and
grain of the corn; but none without their
use, none without nobleness when seen in
balanced unity with the rest of the spirit
which they are charged to defend.= _Ruskin._
=The passions rise higher at domestic than at
imperial tragedies.= _Johnson._