like death, and yet at the same time warm
and joy-giving like life.= _W. von Humboldt._
=The past and future are veiled; but the past
wears the widow's veil, the future the
virgin's.= _Jean Paul._
=The past at least is secure.= _Daniel Webster._
=The past is all holy to us; the dead are all= 5
=holy; even they that were base and wicked
when alive.= _Carlyle._
=The past is an unfathomable depth, / Beyond
the span of thought; 'tis an elapse / Which
hath no mensuration, but hath been / For
ever and for ever.= _H. Kirke White._
=The past is to us a book sealed with seven
seals=, _i.e._, which no one need hope fully to open.
_Goethe._
=The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze.=
_Blair._
=The path of nature is indeed a narrow one,
and it is only the immortals that seek it,
and, when they find it, they do not find
themselves cramped therein.= _Lowell._
=The path of sorrow, and that path alone, /= 10
=Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.=
_Cowper._
=The path of the just is as the shining light,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day.= _Bible._
=The path of things is silent.= _Emerson._
=The paths of glory lead but to the grave.=
_Gray._
=The pathetic almost always consists in the
detail of little circumstances.= _Gibbon._
=The peace of heaven is theirs who lift their= 15
=swords / In such a just and charitable war.=
_King John_, ii. 1.
=The peacemakers shall be called the children
of God.= _Jesus._
=The peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the
passionate, the suspicious, and those who
live upon others' means, are for ever unhappy.=
_Hitopadesa._
=The pen is mightier than the sword.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured
more in describing the afflictions of Job than
the felicities of Solomon.= _Bacon._
=The people have the right to murmur, but they= 20
=have also the right to be violent, and their
silence is the lesson of kings.= _Jean de Beauvais._
=The people of England are the most enthusiastic
in the world.= _Disraeli._
=The people of this world having been once deceived,
suspect deceit in truth itself.= _Hitopadesa._
=The people once belonged to the kings; now
the kings belong to the people.= _Heine._
=The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul
only when all self-seeking is abandoned.= _John
Burroughs._
=The perfection of art is to conceal art.= _Quinct._ 25
=The perfection of conversation is not to play
a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp,
to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.=
_Burke._
=The perfection of spiritual virtue lies in being
always all there, a whole man present in
every movement and moment.= _Ed._
=The period of faith must alternate with the
period of denial; the vernal growth, the
summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual
representations and creations must be followed
by, and again follow, the autumnal
decay, the winter dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=The persistent aspirations of the human race
are to society what the compass is to the
ship. It sees not the shore, but it guides
to it.= _Lamartine._
=The person who in company should pretend= 30
=to be wiser than others, I am apt to regard
as illiterate and ill-bred.= _Goldsmith._
=The person who is contented to be often obliged
ought not to be obliged at all.= _Goldsmith._
=The person whose clothes are extremely fine
I am too apt to consider as not being possessed
of any superiority of fortune, but resembling
those Indians who were found to
wear all the gold they have in the world
in a bob at the nose.= _Goldsmith._
=The pest of society is egotists. There are dull
and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and
fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza,
falls on all constitutions.= _Emerson._
=The philosopher is he to whom the highest
has descended, and the lowest has mounted
up; who is the equal and kindly brother of
all.= _Carlyle._
=The philosopher must station himself in the= 35
=middle.= _Goethe._
=The philosophy of grumbling is great, but not
intricate ... the proof that there is something
wrong, and that a sentient human
being is aware of it.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The philosophy of one century is the common-sense
of the next.= _Ward Beecher._
=The philosophy of six thousand years has
not searched the chambers and magazines
of the soul.= _Emerson._
=The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight /
Through the vast deserts of the skies, /
And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive
and from her ashes rise.= _Cervantes._
=The pillow is a dumb sibyl.= _Gracian._ 40
=The pilot of the Galilean lake; / Two massy
keys he bore, of metals twain, / The golden
opes, the iron shuts amain.= _Milton._
=The pious and just honouring of ourselves may
be thought the radical moisture and fountain-head
from whence every laudable and
worthy enterprise issues forth.= _Milton._
=The pious have always a more intimate connection
with each other than the wicked,
though externally the relationship may not
always prosper as well.= _Goethe._
=The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods;
and by men honoured and worshipped as
divinities, when once they have by death
stripped off for ever their week-day garments.=
_Ed. after Ovid._
=The pitcher goes so often to the water that it= 45
=comes home broken at last.= _Pr._
=The place once trodden by a good man is
hallowed. After a hundred years his word
and actions ring in the ears of his descendants.=
_Goethe._
=The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does
beauty appear.= _Lord Halifax._
=The plainest man that can convince a woman
that he is really in love with her, has done
more to make her in love with him than the
handsomest man, if he can produce no such
conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot,
not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously
only when ingrafted on that love which is
rooted in the breast of another.= _Colton._
=The plea of ignorance will never take away
our responsibilities.= _Ruskin._
=The pleasure of despising, at all times and in
itself a dangerous luxury, is much safer after
the toil of examining than before it.= _Carlyle._
=The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable
passion of woman, coeval with the act of
breathing.= _Le Sage._
=The pleasure-seeker is not the pleasure-finder;= 5
=those are the happiest men who think least
about happiness.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The pleasure we feel in criticising robs us of
that of being deeply moved by very beautiful
things.= _La Bruyère._
=The pleasure we feel in music springs from the
obedience which is in it, and it is full only as
the obedience is entire.= _Theodore T. Murger._
=The pleasure which strikes the soul must be
derived from the beauty and congruity it
sees or conceives in those things which the
sight or imagination lay before it.= _Cervantes._
=The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they
promise more than they give. They trouble
us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us
when possessing them, and they make us
despair in losing them.= _Mme. de Lambert._
=The plenty of the poorest place is too great;= 10
=the harvest cannot be gathered.= _Emerson._
=The poet bestrides the clouds, the wise man
looks up at them.= _Arliss._
=The poet can never have far to seek for a subject;
for him the ideal world is not remote
from the actual, but under it and within it;
and he is a poet precisely because he can
discern it there.= _Carlyle._
=The poet must believe in his poetry. The fault
of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.=
_Emerson._
=The poet must find all within himself while he
is left in the lurch by all without.= _Goethe._
=The poet must live wholly for himself, wholly= 15
=in the objects that delight him.= _Goethe._
=The poet should seize the particular, and he
should, if there is anything sound in it, thus
represent the universal.= _Goethe._
=The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off
whispers of eternity, which coarser souls
must travel towards for scores of years before
their dull sense is touched by them.= _Holmes._
=The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth
glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven, / And, as imagination bodies forth /
The forms of things unknown, the poet's
pen / Turns them to shapes, and gives to
airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which
gives no help to his footsteps till love has
touched it with flame.= _Lowell._
=The poetry of the ancients was that of possession,= 20
=ours is that of aspiration; the former
stands fast on the soil of the present, the
latter hovers between memory and anticipation.=
_Schlegel._
=The point is not that men should have a great
many books, but that they should have the
right ones, and that they should use those
that they have.= _John Morley._
=The pomp of death is far more terrible than
death itself.= _Nathaniel Lee._
=The poor are only they who feel poor.= _Emerson._
=The poor is hated even of his own neighbour.=
_Bible._
=The poor man's budget is full of schemes.= 25
_Pr._
=The poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds,
will fight, / Her young ones in her nest,
against the owl.= _Macb._, iv. 2.
=The poor ye have always with you, but me ye
have not always.= _Jesus._
=The poorer life or the rich one are but the
larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters
in which we write the apophthegms and
golden sayings of life.= _Carlyle._
=The poorest day that passes over us is the
conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of
currents that issue from the remotest part,
and flow onwards into the remotest future.=
_Carlyle._
=The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes,= 30
=and the infinite universe was not made for
one, but for all.= _Carlyle._
=The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance
to all the forces of the crown. It may
be frail, the wind may blow through it, the
storm may enter, the rain may enter, but
the king of England cannot enter! all his
force dares not cross the threshold of that
ruined tenement.= _Chatham._
=The popular ear weighs what you are, not
what you were.= _Quarles._
=The popular man stands on our own level, or
a hairsbreadth higher; and shows us a truth
we can see without shifting our present
intellectual position. The original man
stands above us, and wishes to wrench us
from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a
higher and clearer level.= _Carlyle._
=The population of the world is a conditional
population; not the best, but the best that
could live now.= _Emerson._
=The post of honour is the post of difficulty,= 35
=the post of danger,--of death, if difficulty be
not overcome.= _Carlyle._
=The power of every great people, as of every
living tree, depends on its not effacing, but
confirming and concluding the labours of its
ancestors.= _Ruskin._
=The power of faith will often shine forth the
most when the character is naturally weak.=
_Hare._
=The power of fortune is confessed only by the
miserable, for the happy impute all their
success to prudence and merit.= (?)
=The power of observing life is rare, that of
drawing lessons from it rarer, and that of
condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence
is rarest of all.= _John Morley._
=The power, whether of painter or poet, to describe= 40
=rightly what he calls an ideal thing
depends upon its being to him not an ideal
but a real thing. No man ever did or ever
will work well, but either from actual sight
or sight of faith.= _Ruskin._
=The practice of faith and obedience to some of
our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which
we learn the higher obedience to heaven;
and it is not only needful to the prosperity
of all noble united action, but essential to the
happiness of all noble living spirits.= _Ruskin._
=The practice of submission to the authority of
one whom one recognises as greater than
one's self outweighs the chance of occasional
mistake.= _Froude._
=The praise that comes of love does not make
us vain, but humble rather.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an
answer.= _Gurnall._
=The precepts of philosophy effect not the least= 5
=benefit to one confirmed in fear.= _Hitopadesa._
=The preparations of the heart in man and the
answer of the tongue is from the Lord.=
_Bible._
=The presence of the Eternal is a presence that
articulates and imparts itself in time.= _Ed._
=The presence of the wretched is a burden to
the happy; and alas! the happy still more
so to the wretched.= _Goethe._
=The present holds in it both the whole past and
the whole future.= _Carlyle._
=The present is the only reality and the only= 10
=certainty.= _Schopenhauer._
=The present moment is a potent divinity.=
_Goethe._
=The present moment is our ain, / The neist we
never saw.= _Burns._
=The present time is not priest-ridden, but
press-ridden.= _Longfellow._
=The present time, youngest born of eternity,
child and heir of all the past times with their
good and evil, and parent of all the future,
is ever a new era to the thinking man.= _Carlyle._
=The press beginneth to be an oppression of the= 15
=land.= _Fuller._
=The press is a mill which grinds all that is put
into its hopper.= _Bryant._
=The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend
of reason.= _Colton._
=The price of wisdom is above rubies.= _Bible._
=The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more
than the wethers.= _Ger. Pr._
=The primal condition of virtue is that it shall= 20
=not know of, or believe in, any blessed
islands till it find them, it may be, in due
time.= _Ruskin._
=The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The
charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, /
Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.=
_Wordsworth._
=The primary vocation of man is a life of activity.=
_Goethe._
=The prince as actual ruler is always limited=
(_beschränkt_) =by public opinion; but what is
there to limit public opinion if it holds
sovereign sway?= _Stahl._
=The principal part of faith is patience.= _George
Macdonald._
=The principal point of greatness in any state= 25
=is to have a race of military men.= _Bacon._
=The prisoner is troubled that he cannot go
whither he would, and he that is at large is
troubled that he does not know whither to
go.= _L'Estrange._
=The prisoner's allowance is bread and water,
but I had only the latter.= _Jean Paul, in his
days of poverty._
=The privilege of the country is to be alone,
when we like.= _Marmontel._
=The problem of life is to make the ideal real,
and convert the divine at the summit of the
mountain into the human at its base.= _C. H.
Parkhurst._
=The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists= 30
=conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned
and absolute.= _Plato._
=The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs
himself.= _La Bruyère._
=The production of something, where nothing
was before, is an act of greater energy than
the expansion or decoration of the thing produced.=
_Johnson._
=The profession of riches without their possession
leads to the worst form of poverty.=
_Spurgeon._
=The promise given was a necessity of the past;
the word broken is a necessity of the present.=
_Macchiavelli._
=The Promised Land is the land where one is= 35
=not.= _Amiel._
=The promises of God are yea and amen.=
_Hammond._
=The promises of this world are, for the most
part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's
self, and become something of worth and
value, is the best and safest course.= _Michael
Angelo._
=The promissory lies of great men are known
by shouldering, hugging, squeezing, smiling,
and bowing.= _Arbuthnott._
=The proper confidant of a girl is her father.
What she is not inclined to tell her father
should be told to no one, and, in nine cases
out of ten, not thought of by herself.= _Ruskin._
=The proper Epic of this world is no longer= 40
="Arms and the man," much less "Shirt frills
and the man;" no, it is now "Tools and the
man;" that, henceforth to all time is now
our Epic.= _Carlyle._
=The proper power of faith is to trust= _without_
=evidence, not= _with_ =evidence.= _Ruskin._
=The proper reward of the good workman is to
be "chosen."= _Ruskin._
=The proper study of mankind is man.= _Pope._
=The proper task of literature lies in the domain
of belief.= _Carlyle._
=The property of a man consists in= (_a_) =good= 45
=things=, (_b_) =goods which he has honestly got,
and= (_c_) =goods he can skilfully use.= _Ruskin._
=The prophet is the revealer of what we are to
do; the poet, of what we are to love. The
former too has an eye on what we are to
love; how else shall he know what we are to
do?= _Carlyle._
=The prosperity of our neighbours in the end is
our own, and the poverty of our neighbours
becomes also in the end our own.= _Ruskin._
=The protection of God cannot without sacrilege
be invoked but in behalf of justice and
right.= _Kossuth._
=The proud man often is the mean.= _Tennyson._
=The proudest boast of the most aspiring philosopher= 50
=is no more than that he provides his
little playfellows the greatest pastime with
the greatest innocence.= _Goldsmith._
=The proverb says of the Genoese, that they
have a sea without fish, lands without trees,
and men without faith.= _Addison._
=The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to
its spirit and the results of its civilisation.=
_J. G. Holland._
=The providence of God has established such
an order in the world, that of all which belongs
to us, the least valuable parts can
alone fall under the will of others.= _Bolingbroke._
=The prudence of the best of hearts is often
defeated by the tenderness of the best of
hearts.= _Fielding._
=The prudent man may direct a state, but it= 5
=is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins
it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The prudent part is to propose remedies for
the present evils, and provisions against
future events.= (?)
=The public have neither shame nor gratitude.=
_Hazlitt._
=The public highways ought not to be occupied
by people demonstrating that motion is impossible.=
_Carlyle._
=The public is a personality that knows everything
and can do nothing.= (?)
=The public is the majority of a society.= _Johnson._ 10
=The public sense is in advance of private practice.=
_Chapin._
=The public? The public is just a great baby.=
_Dr. Chalmers._
=The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the
market-place "trains" to over-reaching and
fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the
efficiency of training.= _Horace Mann._
=The punishment of criminals should be of use;
when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.=
_Voltaire._
=The punishment which the wise suffer, who= 15
=refuse to take part in the government, is
to live under the government of worse men.=
_Emerson._
=The pure in heart shall see God.= _Jesus._
=The purer the golden vessel the more readily
is it bent; the higher worth of women is
sooner lost than that of men.= _Jean Paul._
=The purest treasure mortal times afford / Is
spotless reputation; that away, / Men are
but gilded loam or painted clay.= _Rich. II._,
i. 1.
=The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat,
and true pineal gland of the body social.=
_Carlyle._
=The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten= 20
=the names of their founders.= _Fuller._
=The quality of mercy is not strain'd; / It
droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven /
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; /
It blesseth him that gives and him that
takes. / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it
becomes / The throned monarch better than
his crown.= _Mer. of Venice_, iv. 1.
=The quantity of books in a library is often
a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the
owner.= _Oxenstiern._
=The quantity of sorrow a man has, does it not
mean withal the quantity of sympathy he
has, the quantity of faculty and victory he
shall have? Our sorrow is the inverted
image of our nobleness.= _Carlyle._
=The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, /
Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.=
1 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=The question is not at what door of fortune's= 25
=palace shall we enter in, but what doors
does she open to us?= _Burns._
=The question is not who is the most learned,
but who is the best.= _Montaigne._
=The question is this: is man an ape or angel?
I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels.=
_Disraeli at a Church Conference in Oxford,
Bp. Wilberforce in the chair._
=The question of education is for the modern
world a question of life or death, a question
on which depends the future.= _Renan._
=The question of questions (for men and nations)
is--not how far they are from heaven, but
whether they are going to it. (So in art)
it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that
you have to estimate, not the skill or the
rudeness, but the tendency.= _Ruskin._
=The question of the purpose of things is completely= 30
=unscientific.= _Goethe._
=The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to
the strong.= _Bible._
=The race of mankind would perish did they
cease to aid each other.= _Scott._
=The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's
warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the
shepherd's delight.= _Pr._
=The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The
man's the gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=The ransom of a man's life are his riches.= 35
_Bible._
=The ray of light passes invisible through space,
and only when it falls on an object is it seen.=
_Emerson._
=The readiness is all.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=The real man is one who always finds excuses
for others, but never excuses himself.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The real men of genius were resolute workers,
not idle dreamers.= _G. H. Lewes._
=The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does= 40
=any good to the era, is the rat-catcher.=
_Carlyle._
=The real object of education is to give children
resources that will endure as long as life endures;
habits that time will ameliorate, not
destroy; occupation that will render sickness
tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable,
life more dignified and useful, and death
less terrible.= _Sydney Smith._
=The real object of the drama is the exhibition
of human character.= _Macaulay._
=The real science of political economy is that
which teaches nations to desire and labour
for the things that lead to life; and which
teaches them to scorn and destroy the things
that lead to destruction.= _Ruskin._
=The really strong may bend, and be as strong
as ever; it is the unsound that has only the
seeming of strength, which breaks at last
when it resists too long.= _Lever._
=The reason that there is such a general outcry= 45
=against flatterers is, that there are so
very few good ones.= _Steele._
=The reason why borrowed books are so seldom
returned to their owners is, that it is
much easier to retain the books than what
is in them.= _Montaigne._
=The reason why so few marriages are happy
is because young ladies spend their time in
making nets, not in making cages.= _Swift._
=The reason why the character of woman is so
often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful
nature of woman to veil her soul as her
charms.= _F. Schlegel._
=The reason why we sometimes see that men
of the greatest capacities are not rich, is
either because they despise wealth in comparison
of something else, or, at least, are
not content to be getting an estate, unless
they may do it in their own way, and at the
same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications
of life.= _Eustace Budgell._
=The recording angel, consider it well, is no
fable, but the truest of truths; the paper
tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf"
there is no burning.= _Carlyle._
=The regeneration of society is the regeneration= 5
=of the individual by education.= _Laboulaye._
=The regions of eternal happiness are provided
for those women who love their husbands
the same in a wilderness as in a city; be he
a saint, or be he sinner.= _Hitopadesa._
=The relation of the taught to their teacher, of
the loyal subject to his guiding king, is,
under one shape or another, the vital element
in human society.= _Carlyle._
=The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill,
that of Christendom war and ill-will.=
_Landor._
=The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials,
virtues, and devotions, is very practicable.=
_Watts._
=The religion of one age is the literary entertainment= 10
=of the next.= _Emerson._
=The religions of the world are the ejaculations
of a few imaginative men.= _Emerson._
=The religions we call false were once true.
They also were affirmations of the conscience
correcting the evil customs of their times.=
_Emerson._
=The religious passion is nearly always vividest
where the art is weakest; and the technical
skill only reaches its deliberate splendour
when the ecstasy which gave it birth has
passed away for ever.= _Ruskin._
=The reputation of a man is like his shadow--gigantic
when it precedes him, and pigmy
in its proportions when it follows.= _Talleyrand._
=The reputation of a woman is as a crystal= 15
=mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be
sullied by every breath that comes near it.=
_Cervantes._
=The reputation of virtuous actions past, if not
kept up with an access and fresh supply
of new ones, is lost and soon forgotten.=
_Denham._
=The resentment of a poor man is like the
efforts of a harmless insect to sting; it may
get him crushed, but cannot defend him.=
_Goldsmith._
=The rest is silence.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=The result= (of things) =is obvious, but the intention
is never clear.= _Rückert._
=The revelation of thought takes man out of= 20
=servitude into freedom.= _Emerson._
=The reverence of a man's self is, next religion,
the chiefest bridle of all vices.= _Bacon._
=The revolutionary outbreaks of the lower
classes are the consequence of the injustice
of the higher classes.= _Goethe._
=The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil
another.= _George Eliot._
=The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is
the maker of them all.= _Bible._
=The rich are always advising the poor; but= 25
=the poor seldom venture to return the compliment.=
_Helps._
=The rich are invited to marry by that fortune
which they do not want, and the poor have
no inducement but that beauty which they
do not feel.= _Goldsmith._
=The rich becoming richer and the poor poorer,
is the cry throughout the whole civilised
world.= _Sillar._
=The rich devour the poor, the devil the rich,
and so both are devoured.= _Dutch Pr._
=The rich man does not feel his wealth with any
vividness.= _Goethe._
=The rich man is seldom in his own halls, because= 30
=it bores him to be there, and still he
returns thither, because he is no better off
outside.= _Schopenhauer._
=The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and
as an high wall in his own conceit.= _Bible._
=The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower
is servant to the lender.= _Bible._
=The richest minds need not large libraries.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=The riddle of the age has for each a private
solution.= _Emerson._
=The ridge once gained, the path so hard of= 35
=late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate=
(to virtue). _Hesiod._
=The right divine of kings to govern wrong.=
_Quoted by Pope._
=The right ear, that is fill'd with dust, / Hears
little of the false or just.= _Tennyson._
=The right honourable gentleman is indebted
to his memory for his jests, and to his
imagination for his facts.= _Sheridan._
=The right law of education is that you take
the most pains with the best material.
Never waste pains on bad ground, but
spare no labour on the good, or on what
has in it the capacity of good.= _Ruskin._
=The right man in the right place.= _A. H._ 40
_Layard in the House of Commons._
=The righteous hath hope in his death.= _Bible._
=The righteous man falls oft, / Yet falls but
soft; / There may be dirt to mire him, but
no stones / To crush his bones.= _Quarles._
=The righteousness of the upright shall deliver
them.= _Bible._
=The "rights" of men in any form are not worth
discussing; the grand point is the "mights"
of men--what portion of their "rights" they
have a chance of getting sorted out and
realised in this confused world.= _Carlyle._
=The riotous tumult of a laugh is the mob-law= 45
=of the features, and propriety the magistrate
who reads the Riot Act.= _Holmes._
=The risings and sinkings of human affairs are
like those of a ball which is thrown by the
hand.= _Hitopadesa._
=The river has its cataract, / And yet the waters
down below / Soon gather from the foam,
compact, / And, just like those above it, flow.=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=The river remains troubled that has not gone
through a lake; the heart is impure that has
not gone through a sorrow.= _Rückert._
=The road's afore you, the sky's aboon you.=
_Pr._
=The road to resolution lies by doubt.= _Quarles._
=The road to ruin is always kept in good repair,
and the travellers pay the expense of
it.= _Pr._
=The road which runs without a bend / Is that= 5
=which hath a proper end.= _Goethe._
=The robb'd that smiles, steals something from
the thief.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and
admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue,
unusually manifested.= _Ruskin._
=The root of almost every schism and heresy
from which the Christian Church has suffered
has been the effort of men to earn,
rather than to receive, their salvation; and
the reason that preaching is so commonly
ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to
work for God than to behold God working
for them.= _Ruskin._
=The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must
be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe
first, and then perfume.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=The rough material of fine writing is certainly= 10
=the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe
that the workmanship is the united effort of
pains, attention, and repeated trial.= _Burns._
=The rough seas that spare not any man.=
_Pericles_, ii. 1.
=The rude man requires only to see something
going on. The man of more refinement
must be made to feel. The man of complete
refinement must be made to reflect.= _Goethe._
=The rule of the footway is clear as the light, /
And none can its reason withstand; / On
each side of the way you must keep to the
right, / And leave those you meet the left
hand.= _Saying._
=The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The
ruling passion, conquers reason still.= _Pope._
=The running waves of eager life end on the= 15
=motionless fixed strand of death.= _Alfred
Austin._
=The Sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the Sabbath.= _Jesus._
=The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, /
Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers
heaven.= _Waller._
=The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination.=
_Bible._
=The saddest external condition of affairs
among men, is but evidence of a still sadder
internal one.= _Carlyle._
=The safest and purest joys of human life rebuke= 20
=the violence of its passions; they are
obtainable without anxiety and memorable
without regret.= _Ruskin._
=The safest words are always those which
bring us most directly to facts.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=The safety-valves of the heart when too
much pressure is laid on.= _Albert Smith, on
tears._
=The salve of reformation they mightily call
for, but where and what the sores are which
need it, as they wot full little, so they think
not greatly material to search.= _Hooker._
=The same motions and muscles of the face are
employed both in laughing and crying.=
_Charron._
=The Satanic school.= _Southey._ 25
="The savans and the asses in the middle."=
_Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge
in Egypt._
=The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant;
the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute;
and every man disagreeable.= _Chesterfield._
=The schoolboy counts the time till the return
of the holidays; the minor longs to be of
age; the lover is impatient till he is married.=
_Addison._
=The schoolmaster is abroad.= _Brougham._
=The sea belongs to eternity, and not time,= 30
=and of that it sings its monotonous song for
ever and ever.= _Holmes._
=The sea complains upon a thousand shores.=
_Alex. Smith._
=The sea does not contain all the pearls, the
earth does not enclose all the treasures, and
the flint-stone does not enclose all the
diamonds, since the head of man encloses
wisdom.= _Saadi._
=The sea moans over dead men's bones.= _T. B.
Aldrich._
=The sea that bares her bosom to the moon.=
_Wordsworth._
=The sea tosses and foams to find its way up to= 35
=the cloud and wind.= _Emerson._
=The seal of truth is simplicity.= _Boerhaave._
=The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom,
in the heart. We are sure to judge
wrong if we do not feel aright.= _Hazlitt._
=The seat of law is the bosom of God; her voice,
the harmony of the world.= _Hooker._
=The second fruit of friendship is healthful and
sovereign for the understanding, as the first
is for the affections; for friendship maketh
indeed a fair day in the affections from storm
and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the
understanding out of darkness and confusion
of thoughts.= _Bacon._
=The secret of education lies in respecting the= 40
=pupil.= _Emerson._
=The secret of happiness is never to allow your
energies to stagnate.= _Adam Clarke._
=The secret of language is the secret of sympathy,
and its full charm is possible only to
the gentle.= _Ruskin._
=The secret of making one's self tiresome is not
to know when to stop.= _Voltaire._
=The secret of man's being is still like the
Sphinx's secret; a riddle that he cannot
rede; and for ignorance of which he suffers
death, the worst death--a spiritual.= _Carlyle._
=The secret of man's nature lies in his religion,= 45
=in what he really believes about the world
and his own place in it.= _Froude._
=The secret of man's success resides in his insight
into the moods of men, and his tact in
dealing with them.= _J. G. Holland._
=The secret of our existence is the connection
between our sins and our sufferings.= (?)
=The secret of success in society is a certain
heartiness and sympathy.= _Emerson._
=The secret of success is constancy to purpose.=
_Disraeli._
=The secret of tiring is to say everything that
can be said on the subject.= _Voltaire._
=The secret things belong unto the Lord.=
_Bible._
=The secrets of great folk are just like the wild
beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep
them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a'
very weel or better--but ance let them out,
they will turn and rend you.= _Scott._
=The secrets of life are not shown except to
sympathy and likeness.= _Emerson._
=The seed of knowledge ripens but slowly in the= 5
=mind, but the flowers grow quickly.= _Bodenstedt._
=The seeds of things are very small.= _George
Eliot._
=The seers are wholly a greater race than the
thinkers=; (yet) =a true thinker, who has a
practical purpose in his thinking, and is
sincere, as Plato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes
in some sort a seer, and must be
always of infinite use in his generation.=
_Ruskin._
=The self-same sun that shines upon his court /
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but /
Looks on alike.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 3.
=The sense of beauty never furthered the performance
of a single duty.= _Ruskin._
=The sense of death is most in apprehension, /= 10
=And the poor beetle that we tread upon / In
corporal sufferance finds a pang as great /
As when a giant dies.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The sense of human dignity was the chief
moral agent of antiquity, and the sense of
sin of mediævalism.= _H. Lecky._
=The sense of the infinite nature of Duty is the
central part of all with us; a ray as of
Eternity and Immortality, immured in dusky
many-coloured Time, and its births and
deaths.= _Carlyle._
=The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment
does.= _Goethe._
=The sentimental by and by will have to give
place to the practical.= _Carlyle._
=The serenity that is not felt, it can be no= 15
=virtue to feign.= _Johnson._
=The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for
their wisdom all the world over, acquired all
that fame each of them by a single sentence
consisting of two or three words.= _South._
=The "seventeenth" century is worthless to us
except precisely in so far as it can be made
the "nineteenth."= _Carlyle._
=The severe and restrictive virtues are almost
too costly for humanity.= _Burke._
=The severity of laws impedes their execution.=
_Montesquieu._
=The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.= 20
_Mer. of Venice_, ii. 1.
=The sheep slips and is up again; the sow lies
down and wallows.= _Saying._
=The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted
with Love, and found him a native of the
rocks.= _Johnson._
=The ship that carries most sail is most buffeted
by the winds and storms.= _John Burroughs._
=The short and simple annals of the poor.= _Gray._
=The shorter life, less count I find, / The less= 25
=account the sooner made, / The account soon
made, the merrier mind, / The merrier mind
doth thought evade.= _Sir T. Wyatt._
=The shortest and the surest way to prove a
work possible is strenuously to set about
it; and no wonder if that proves it possible
that for the most part makes it so.= _South._
=The shortest answer is doing.= _Pr._
=The shortest way to do many things is to do
only one thing at once.= _Samuel Smiles._
=The showy lives its little hour; the true / To
after times bears rapture ever new.= _Goethe._
=The shrine is that which thou dost venerate, /= 30
=And not the beast that bears it on his back.=
_George Herbert._
=The sight of you is good for sore eyes.= _Swift._
=The sign of health is unconsciousness.= _Carlyle._
=The sign of the poet is that he announces what
no man foretold.= _Emerson._
=The significance of life is doing something.=
_Carlyle._
=The signs of the times.= _Jesus._ 35
=The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades
when speaking fails.= _Winter's Tale_, ii. 2.
=The silence that is in the starry sky.= _Wordsworth._
=The silent heavens have goings-on; / The
stars have tasks.= _Wordsworth._
=The simple believeth every word.= _Bible._
=The sin that practice burns into the blood, /= 40
=And not the one dark hour which brings
remorse, / Will brand us, after, of whose
fold we be.= _Tennyson._
=The single snowflake--who cares for it? But
a whole day of snowflakes ... who does
not care for that? Private opinion is weak,
but public opinion is almost omnipotent.= (?)
=The slack sail shifts from side to side, / The
boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, / Borne
down, adrift, at random tost, / The oar
breaks short, the rudder's lost.= _Gay._
=The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether
he eat little or much: but the abundance of
the rich will not suffer him to sleep.= _Bible._
=The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures.=
_Macb._, ii. 2.
=The slender vine twists around the sturdy= 45
=oak, for no other reason in the world but
because it has not strength sufficient to support
itself.= _Goldsmith._
=The slight that can be conveyed in a glance,
in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand,
is often the "ne plus ultra" of art. What
insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the
polite insult which it is impossible to resent?=
_Julia Kavanagh._
=The slow wheel turns, / The cycles round
themselves and grow complete, / The world's
year whitens to the harvest-tide, / And one
word only am I= (Psyche) =sent to say ... / To
all things living, and the word is "Love."=
_Lewis Morris._
=The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than
seven men that can render a reason.= _Bible._
=The sly shadow steals away upon the dial,
and the quickest eye can discover no more
but that it is gone.= _Glanville._
=The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater= 50
=ennoble it.= _Bovee._
=The smallest annoyances disturb us most.=
_Montaigne._
=The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest
tree without sending a shock to its most
distant fibre.= _Lew Wallace._
=The smallest worm will turn, being trodden
on; / And doves will peck, in safeguard of
their brood.= 3 _Henry VI._, ii. 2.
=The smoke of a man's own house is better than
the fire of another's.= _Pr._
=The snail sees nothing but his own shell, and
thinks it the grandest place in the world.=
_Pr._
=The social, friendly, honest man, / Whate'er
he be, / 'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, /
And none but he.= _Burns._
=The society of women is the element of good= 5
=manners.= _Goethe._
=The soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is
not slaying, but being slain ... and the
reason the world honours the soldier is because
he holds his life at the service of the
state.= _Ruskin._
=The soldier's ultimate and perennial office is
to punish knaves and make idle persons
work; the defence of his country against
other countries, which is his office at present,
will soon now be extinct.= _Ruskin._
=The sole terms on which the past can become
ours are its subordination to the present.=
_Emerson._
=The Son of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a
ransom for many.= _Jesus._
=The song that we hear with our ears is only= 10
=the song that is sung with our hearts.=
_Ouida._
=The sorest tempest has the most sudden calm.=
_Socrates._
=The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing;
that of To-day is bearable; but that of
To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct.=
_Euripides._
=The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty
without deserving it.= _Ruskin._
=The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes,
seems to set in night; but it has in reality
only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.=
_Goethe._
=The soul is not where it lives, but where it= 15
=loves.= _Pr._
=The soul knows no persons.= _Emerson._
=The soul may be trusted to the end.= _Emerson._
=The soul moralises the past in order not to be
demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible
of experience only the gold that she herself
has poured into it.= _Amiel._
=The soul of a man can by no agency, of men
or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his
own only.= _Carlyle._
=The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God.= 20
_Ruskin._
=The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It
is audible, not visible.= _Longfellow._
=The soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing
so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; /
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, /
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward /
To the world's open view.= _Dryden._
=The soul, / The particle of God sent down to
man, / Which doth in turn reveal the world
and God.= _Lewis Morris._
=The soul, / Though made in time, survives for
aye; / And, though it hath beginning, sees
no end.= _Sir J. Davies._
=The soul's armour is never well set to the= 25
=heart unless a woman's hand has braced it.=
_Ruskin._
=The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, /
Lets in new light through chinks that time
has made.= _Waller._
=The soul's emphasis is always right.= _Emerson._
=The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a
cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.=
_Holmes._
=The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a
Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton,
the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns.=
_Carlyle._
=The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is= 30
=in kings' palaces.= _Bible._
=The spirit breatheth where it willeth, and thou
hearest the voice thereof, but canst not tell
whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so
is it with every one that is born of the
spirit.= _Jesus._
=The spirit in which we act is the highest
matter.= _Goethe._
=The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is
weak.= _Jesus of his disciples._
=The spirit is higher than nature.= _Hegel._
=The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;= 35
=but a wounded spirit who can bear?= _Bible._
=The spirit of moderation should be the spirit of
a lawgiver.= _Montesquieu._
=The spirit of poesy is the morning light, which
makes the statue of Memnon sound.= _Novalis._
=The spirit only can teach.= _Emerson._
=The spirit was long ago liberated from the
blind law of nature, and the task it is called
to now is to unfold itself with freedom and
clearness in the sunlight=, _i.e._, =in its own light
now at length conscious of itself.= _Ed._
=The spiritual artist too is born blind, and does= 40
=not, like certain other creatures, receive
sight in nine days, but far later--perhaps
never.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual is ever the inner in a man becoming
outer, the invisible becoming visible,
the supernatural becoming natural, the infinite
becoming finite, and the eternal veiling
itself in the guise of time; never an
emancipation from the flesh, but ever an
incarnation in flesh.= _Ed._
=The spiritual is higher than the external; the
spiritual cannot be externally authenticated.=
_Hegel._
=The spiritual is the parent and first cause of
the practical.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not
his world to rule him.= _Ed._
=The spiritual problem which Christ resolved= 45
=was pretty much this--the derivation of that
from within man which was conceived to be
above man, by the reperception of the forgotten
truth that it was in His own image
God made man. He first opened up the well
within.= _Ed._
=The spiritual universe is no more to be made
out of a man's own head than the material
universe or the moral universe.... No belief
of ours will change the facts or reverse
the laws of the spiritual universe.= _R. W.
Dale._
=The spiritual will always body itself forth in
the temporal history of men; the spiritual is
the beginning of the temporal, always determines
the material.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual world is not closed; it is thy
sense that is: thy heart is dead.= _Goethe._
=The spring can be apprehended only while it
is flowing.= _Goethe._
=The springing of a serpent is from the sun;
the wisdom of the serpent, whence is that?=
_Ruskin._
=The stars do not come to tell us it is night,= 5
=but to lay beams of light through it, and
give the eye a path to walk in.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The stars shall fade away, the sun himself /
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in
years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal
youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, /
The wrecks of matter and the crash of
worlds.= _Addison._
=The stars themselves are only bright by distance;
go close, and all is earthy; but vapours
illuminate there; from the breath and from
the countenance of God comes light on
worlds higher than they.= _Landor._
=The "State in danger" is a condition of things
which we have witnessed a hundred times;
and as for the Church, it has seldom been
out of "danger" since we can remember it.=
_Carlyle._
=The State must follow, and not lead, the character
and progress of the citizen.= _Emerson._
=The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician= 10
=is satisfied to drift.= _James Freeman
Clarke._
=The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and
find the rock beneath.= _Whittier._
=The still, sad music of humanity.= _Wordsworth._
=The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to
woo her; by shunning to win her; and
proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she
would turn and follow him.= _Arliss._
=The Stoic was a proud man, and not a humble,
and he was content if he could only have his
own soul for a prey. He did not see that the
salvation of one man is impossible except in
the salvation of other men, and that no man
can save another unless he descend into that
other's case, and be, as it were, in that
other's stead.= _Ed._
=The stoical exemption which philosophy affects= 15
=to give us over the pains and vexations of
human life is as imaginary as the state of
mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by
some crazy enthusiast.= _Scott._
=The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by
lopping off our desires is like cutting off our
feet when we want shoes.= _Swift._
=The stomach has no ears.= _Pr._
=The stone that lieth not in your way need
not offend you.= _Pr._
=The stone which the builders refused has become
the head of the corner.= _Bible._
=The storm of sad mischance will turn into= 20
=something that is good, if we list to make it
so.= _Taylor._
=The stranger who turneth away from a house
with disappointed hopes leaveth there his
own offences, and departeth, taking with
him all the good actions of the owner.= _Hitopadesa._
=The stranger's greeting thou shouldst aye
return!= _Goethe._
=The strawberry grows under the nettle, / And
wholesome berries thrive and ripen best /
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.= _Hen.
V._, i. 1.
=The stream can never rise above the spring-head.=
_Pr._
=The street is full of humiliations to the proud.= 25
_Emerson._
=The strength and power of a country depends
absolutely on the quantity of good men and
women in it.= _Ruskin._
=The strength of aquatic animals is the waters;
of those who dwell in towns, a castle; of footsoldiers,
their own ground; of princes, an
obedient army.= _Hitopadesa._
=The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music
flies; / The string o'erslack is dumb, and
music dies; / Tune us the sitar neither low
nor high.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The string that jars / When rudely touch'd,
ungrateful to the sense, / With pleasure feels
the master's flying fingers, / Swells into harmony
and charms the hearers.= _Rowe._
=The stroke that comes transmitted through= 30
=a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less
a stroke than if the last ball only had been
struck and sent flying?= _Carlyle._
=The strokes of the pen need deliberation as
much as those of the sword need swiftness.=
_Julia W. Howe._
=The strong man is the wise man; the man
with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of
valour; who has insight into what is what,
into what will follow out of what, the eye to
see and the hand to do.= _Carlyle._
=The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted
with its strength.= _Carlyle._
=The strong must build stout cabins for the
weak; / Must plan and stint; must sow
and reap and store; / For grain takes root
though all seems bare and bleak.= _Eugene
Lee-Hamilton._
_The strong thing is the just thing: this thou_ 35
=wilt find throughout in our world;--as indeed
was God and Truth the maker of it, or was
Satan and Falsehood?= _Carlyle._
=The strong torrents, which in their own gladness
fill the hills with hollow thunder and
the vales with winding light, have yet their
bounden charge of field to feed and barge
to bear.= _Ruskin._
=The strongest arm is impotent to impart
momentum to a feather.= _Schopenhauer._
=The strongest castle, tower, and town, / The
golden bullet beats it down.= _Shakespeare._
=The strongest oaths are straw / To the fire
i' the blood.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=The student is to read history actively and= 40
=not passively; to esteem his own life the
text, and books the commentary. Thus
compelled, the muse of history will utter
oracles as never to those who do not respect
themselves.= _Emerson._
=The study of books is a languishing and feeble
motion that hearts not, whereas conversation
teaches and exercises at once.= _Montaigne._
=The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way.=
_George Herbert._
=The style of an author is a faithful copy of his
mind. If you would write a lucid style, let
there first be light in your own mind; and if
you would write a grand style, you ought to
have a grand character.= _Goethe._
=The style of letters should not be too highly
polished. It ought to be neat and correct,
but no more.= _Blair._
=The style of writing required in the great
world is distinguished by a free and daring
grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp
polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while
that fitted for the people is characterised
by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound
depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté.=
_Goethe._
=The sublime is in a grain of dust.= _Landor._
=The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as= 5
=the stars are of immeasurable space. When
what is mighty appears in nature--a storm,
thunder, the starry firmament, death--then
utter the word "God" before the child. A
great misfortune, a great blessing, a great
crime, a noble action, are building-sites for
a child's church.= _Jean Paul._
=The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in
the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels
as great as it ever can feel. When we compare
such a feeling with that we are sensible
of when we laboriously harass ourselves with
some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as
much as possible for it, as it were, to patch
it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to
the mind from its own creation, we then feel
sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the
latter is.= _Goethe._
=The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable
moment, has often carried all before it
with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at
a glance the mighty power of genius.= _Longinus._
=The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is
the stammering of the human soul on the lips
of infancy.= _Victor Hugo._
=The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things
living which are to be desired when dying.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=The substance of a diligent man is precious.= 10
_Bible._
=The substance of a man is full good when sin is
not in a man's conscience.= _Chaucer._
=The substantial wealth of a man consists in
the earth he cultivates with its plants and
animals, and in the rightly produced works
of his own hands.= _Ruskin._
=The success of many works is found in the relation
between the mediocrity of the author's
ideas and that of the ideas of the public.=
_Chamfort._
=The suffering man ought really "to consume
his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting
smoke till you have made it into fire.= _Carlyle._
=The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my= 15
=merit is not sufficient.= _St. Augustine._
=The sun can be seen by nothing but its own
light.= _Pr._
=The sun flings out impurities, gets balefully incrusted
with spots; but it does not quench
itself, and become no sun at all, but a mass
of darkness.= _Carlyle._
=The sun! God's crest upon his azure shield, the
heavens.= _Bailey._
=The sun is God.= _Turner on his deathbed._
=The sun may do its duty, though your grapes= 20
=are not ripe.= _Pr._
=The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself
remains as pure as before.= _Bacon._
=The sun-steeds of time, as if goaded by invisible
spirits, bear onward the light car of
our destiny, and nothing remains for us but,
with calm self-possession, to grasp the reins,
and now right, now left, to steer the wheels,
here from the precipice, and there from the
rock. Whither he is hasting, who knows?
Does any one consider whence he came?=
_Goethe._
=The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star
from its path. How then could a human
being fall out of God's love!= _Rückert._
=The sunshine of life is made up of very little
beams, that are bright all the time.= _Aikin._
=The superstition in which we have grown up= 25
=does not lose its hold over us even when we
recognise it for such. Those who scoff at
their fetters are not all free men.= _Lessing._
=The sure way to miss success is to miss the
opportunity.= _Philarète Chasles._
=The surest sign of age is loneliness.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=The surest test of a man's critical power is his
judgment of contemporaries.= _La Bruyère._
=The surest way not to fail is to determine to
succeed.= _Sheridan._
=The surest way to have redress is to be earnest= 30
=in pursuit of it.= _Goldsmith._
=The surgeon practises on the orphan's head.=
_Arab. Pr._
=The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but
in the human voice when it speaks from its
instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or
courage.= _Emerson._
=The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.=
_Pr._
=The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.=
_Bible._
=The sweets of love are washed with tears.= 35
_George Herbert._
=The sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness;
right is an eternal ray.= _Victor Hugo._
=The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the
sympathy of prosperity.= _I. Disraeli._
=The system of the world is entirely one; small
things and great are alike part of one mighty
whole.= _Ruskin._
=The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.=
_Bible._
=The tallest trees are most in the power of the= 40
=winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of
fortune.= _Wm. Penn._
=The tanager flies through the green foliage as
if he would ignite the leaves.= _Thoreau._
=The teaching of art is the teaching of all things.=
_Ruskin._
=The teachings of Heaven are given--by sad
law--in so obscure, nay, often in so ironical
a manner, that a blockhead necessarily reads
them wrong.= _Ruskin._
=The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water;
the mourning tear, only of the second.= _Jean
Paul._
=The tears of penitents are the wine of angels.= 45
_St. Bernard._
=The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the
greatest fool.= _Swift._
=The temper of the pedagogue suits not with
the age; and the world, however it may be
taught, will not be tutored.= _Shaftesbury._
=The temperate man's pleasures are durable,
because they are regular; and all his life is
calm and serene, because it is innocent.= (?)
=The tempest never rooteth up the grass, which
is feeble, humble, and shooteth not up on
high; but exerteth its power even to distress
the lofty trees; for the great use not their
might but upon the great.= _Hitopadesa._
=The temple of our purest thoughts is--silence!= 5
_Mrs. Hale._
=The tendency of laws should be rather to
diminish the amount of evil than to produce
an amount of happiness.= _Goethe._
=The tendency of party-spirit has ever been to
disguise and propagate and support error.=
_Whately._
=The tender flower that lifts its head, elate, /
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate, /
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form, /
Unless your shelter ward th' impending
storm.= _Burns._
=The tender heart o' leesome luve / The gowd
and siller canna buy.= _Burns._
=The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.= 10
_Bible._
=The term of man's life is half wasted before
he has done with his mistakes and begins
to profit by his lessons.= _Jane Taylor._
=The test of civilisation is the estimate of
woman.= _G. W. Curtis._
=The test or measure of poetic genius is to read
the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance
of to-day.= _Emerson._
=The theatre has often been at variance with
the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How
much is it to be wished that in both the celebration
of nature and of God were intrusted
to none but men of noble minds!= _Goethe._
=The There is never Here.= _Schiller._ 15
=The thin edge of the wedge is to be feared.= _Pr._
=The thing a lie wants, and solicits from all
men, is not a correct natural history of it,
but the swiftest possible extinction of it,
followed by entire silence about it.= _Carlyle._
=The thing done avails, and not what is said
about it.= _Emerson._
=The thing men get to believe is the thing they
will infallibly do.= _Carlyle._
=The thing that hath been, it is that which= 20
=shall be; and that which is done is that
which shall be done.= _Bible._
=The thing that is, what can be so wonderful?
what, especially to us that are, can have
such significance?= _Carlyle._
=The thing that matters most, both for happiness
and for duty, is that we should strive
habitually to live with wise thoughts and
right feelings.= _J. Morley._
=The thing to be anxious about is not to be
right with man, but with mankind.= _Prof.
Drummond._
=The thing visible, nay, the thing imagined, the
thing in any way conceived of as visible, what
is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher,
celestial invisible, "unimaginable, formless,
dark with excess of bright"?= _Carlyle._
=The thing which is deepest rooted in Nature,= 25
=what we call truest, that, and not the other,
will be found growing at last.= _Carlyle._
=The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence,
and foolish thoughts; and the things
which save us are justice, self-command,
and true thought, which things dwell in the
loving powers of the gods.= _Plato._
=The things that threatened me, / Ne'er look'd
but on my back; when they shall see / The
face of Cæsar, they are vanished.= _Jul.
Cæsar_, ii. 2.
=The thinker requires exactly the same light
as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine,
or blinding reflection, and, where
possible, from above.= _Schlegel._
=The thinking minds of all nations call for
change. There is a deep-lying struggle in
the whole fabric of society; a boundless,
grinding collision of the new with the old.=
_Carlyle._
=The third pays for all.= _Twelfth Night_, v. 1. 30
=The thirst for truth still remains with us, even
when we have wilfully left the fountains of
it.= _Ruskin._
=The thorny point / Of bare distress hath ta'en
from me the show / Of smooth civility.= _As
You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The thought is always prior to the fact; all
the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as
laws.= _Emerson._
=The thought is parent of the deed.= _Carlyle._
=The thought of foolishness is sin.= _Bible._ 35
=The thoughts of the diligent tend only to
plenteousness; but of every one that is
hasty only to want.= _Bible._
=The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination
to the Lord.= _Bible._
=The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.=
_Lapland Pr._
=The thoughts we have had, the pictures we
have seen, can be again called back before
the mind's eye and before the imagination;
but the heart is not so obliging; it
does not reproduce its pleasing emotions.=
_Goethe._
=The thrall in person may be free in soul.= 40
_Tennyson._
=The throne is established by righteousness.=
_Bible._
=The time for words has passed, and deeds alone
suffice.= _Whittier._
=The time has been / That when the brains
were out the man should die, / And there an
end.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite, /
That ever I was born to set it right.= _Ham._,
i. 5.
=The time of breeding is the time of doing= 45
=children good; and not as many who think
they have done fairly if they leave them a
good portion after their decease.= _George
Herbert._
=The time that bears no fruit deserves no name.=
_Young._
=The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities;
trivial to the dull, tokens of noble
and majestic agents to the wise.= _Emerson._
=The timid are in fear before danger, the
cowardly in danger, and the courageous
after danger.= _Jean Paul._
=The timing of things is a main point in the
dispatch of all affairs.= _L'Estrange._
=The tired ocean crawls along the beach sobbing
a wordless sorrow to the moon.= _William
Falconer._
=The toil of life alone teaches us to value the
blessings of life.= _Goethe._
=The tomb is the pedestal of greatness.= _Landor._
=The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly= 5
=evil, full of deadly poison.= _St. James._
=The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.= _Pr._
=The tongue is not of steel, but it cuts.= _Pr._
=The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.=
_Juv._
=The tongue of the just is as choice silver.=
_Bible._
=The tongue tells the thought of one man only,= 10
=whereas the face expresses a thought of
nature itself; so that every one is worth
attentive observation, even though every one
may not be worth talking to.= _Schopenhauer._
=The tongue's aye quick at saying "Na," /
Though a' the while the heart be dumb.=
_Gilfillan._
=The tongues of dying men / Enforce attention
like deep harmony.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=The too good opinion man has of himself is the
nursing-mother of all false opinions, both
public and private.= _Montaigne._
=The torments of martyrdoms are probably
most keenly felt by the bystanders.= _Emerson._
=The total loss of reason is less deplorable than= 15
=the total depravation of it.= _Cowley._
=The training= (_Bildung_) =of the thinking, of the
dispositions and the morals, is the only education
that deserves the name.= _Herder._
=The trappings of a monarchy would set up an
ordinary commonwealth.= _Johnson._
=The traveller who goes round the world prepares
himself to pass through all latitudes
and to meet all changes.= _Ward Beecher._
=The traveller without observation is a bird
without wings.= _Saadi._
=The treasures of heaven are not negations of= 20
=passion but realities of intellect, from which
all passions emanate, uncurbed in their
eternal glory.= _Wm. Blake._
=The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even
from the woodcutter.= _Hitopadesa._
=The tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven,
goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God,
the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all.=
_Carlyle._
=The tree is no sooner down than every one
runs for his hatchet.= _Pr._
=The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the
tree of life; and that fruit which brought
the fear of death into the world, budding on
an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the
promise of immortality.= _Sir H. Davy._
=The tree of knowledge is not that of life.= 25
_Byron._
=The tree of liberty only grows when watered
by the blood of tyrants.= _Bertrand Barère._
=The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.=
_Arab. Pr._
=The tree which yieldeth both fruit and shade
is highly to be esteemed: but if Providence,
perchance, may have denied it fruit, by
whom is its shade refused?= _Hitopadesa._
=The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For
want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate
into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew
and hack.= _Butler._
=The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the= 30
=planet.= _Lemierre._
=The triumphs of delusion are but for a day.=
_Macaulay._
=The trivial round, the common task, / Will
furnish all we ought to ask. / Room to deny
ourselves, a road / To bring us daily nearer
God.= _Keble._
=The true and the good will be reconciled when
the two are wedded to each other in the
beautiful.= _Rückert._
=The true art of being agreeable is to appear well
pleased with all the company, and rather to
seem well entertained with them than to
bring entertainment to them.= _Addison._
=The true beginning is oftenest unnoticed and= 35
=unnoticeable.= _Carlyle._
=The true "compulsory education" now needed
is not catechism, but drill.= _Ruskin._
=The true cross of the Redeemer is the sin and
sorrow of the world.= _George Eliot._
=The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.=
_Arist._
=The true epic of our times is, not arms and the
man, but tools and the man--an infinitely
wider kind of epic.= _Carlyle._
=The true eye for talent presupposes the true= 40
=reverence for it.= _Carlyle._
=The true fire of heaven always comes from
heaven direct.= _Ed._
=The true function of intellect is not that of
talking, but of understanding and discerning
with a view to performing.= _Carlyle._
=The true God's voice, voice of the Eternal, is
in the heart of every man.= _Carlyle._
=The true good= (all of it) =and glory even of this
world, not to speak of any that is to come,
must be bought still, as it always has been,
with our toil and with our tears. That is
the final doctrine, the inevitable one, not of
Christianity only, but of all heroic faith and
heroic being.= _Ruskin._
=The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat= 45
=as intangible and indescribable as the tints
of morning or evening. It is a little stardust
caught, a segment of the rainbow which
I have clutched.= _Thoreau._
=The true historical genius, to our thinking, is
that which can see the nobler meaning of
the events that are near him.= _Lowell._
=The true labourer is worthy of his hire, but, in
the beginning and first choice of industry,
his heart must not be the heart of an hireling.=
_Ruskin._
=The true ladder of heaven has no steps.= _Jean
Paul._
=The true liberty of a man consists in his finding
out, or being forced to find out, the right
path, and to walk therein.= _Carlyle._
=The true life of man is in society.= _Simms._ 50
=The true life of man, like God's, lies in the ungrudging
imparting of himself to alike the
worthy and unworthy without fear of forfeiture
or claim of reward.= _Ed._
=The true literary man is the light of the world;
the world's priest guiding it, like a sacred
pillar of fire, in its dark pilgrimage through
the waste of time.= _Carlyle._
=The true mind of a nation, at any period, is
always best ascertainable by examining that
of its greatest men.= _Ruskin._
=The true original ground of all disquiet is
within.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The true philosophical act is annihilation of
self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy;
all requisites for being a disciple of
philosophy point hither.= _Novalis._
=The true poet is even more than a finder or
troubadour; he is a seer, a prophet, and an
interpreter between the divine and the
human.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker,= 5
=is still an Orpheus whose lyre tames the
savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to
fashion themselves into palaces and stately
inhabited cities.= _Carlyle._
=The true poetic soul needs but to be struck,
and the sounds it yields will be music.=
_Carlyle._
=The true preacher can be known by this, that
he deals out to the people his life--life passed
through the fire of thought.= _Emerson._
=The true scholar learns from the known to unfold
the unknown, and approaches more and
more to being a master.= _Goethe._
=The true Shekinah is man.= _St. Chrysostom._
=The true strength of every human soul is to= 10
=be dependent on as many nobler as it can
discern, and to be depended upon by as many
inferior as it can reach.= _Ruskin._
=The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind
that can embrace equally great things and
small.= _Johnson._
=The True that is identical with the Divine can
never be directly known by us; we behold
it only in reflexion= (_Abglanz_), =in example,
in symbol, in individual and related phenomena;
we perceive it as incomprehensible
life, which yet we cannot renounce
the wish to comprehend. This is true of
all the phenomena of the conceivable world.=
_Goethe._
=The true university of these days is a collection
of books.= _Carlyle._
=The true value of a man's book is determined
by what he does not write.= _Carlyle._
=The true veins of wealth are purple--not in= 15
=rock, but in flesh=--(and) =the final outcome
and consummation of all wealth is in producing
as many as possible full-breathed,
bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures.=
_Ruskin._
=The true way of softening one's troubles is
to solace those of others.= _Mme. de Maintenon._
=The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or
morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise
the mind acquainted with its strength.=
_Carlyle._
=The truly sublime is always easy, and always
natural.= _Burke._
=The truly wise man should have no keeper of
his secrets but himself.= _Guizot._
=The truth shall make you free.= _Jesus._ 20
=The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not
deeply buried by the wise hand which has
designed it for us.= _Gellert._
=The truth works sometimes from without as
from within.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The truths of Nature are one eternal change,
one infinite variety.= _Ruskin._
=The two best rules for a system of rhetoric
are: first, have something to say; and next,
say it.= _George Emmons._
=The two foes of human happiness are pain and= 25
=ennui.= _Schopenhauer._
=The two great movers of the human mind
are the desire of good and the fear of evil.=
_Johnson._
=The two most beautiful things in the universe
are the starry heavens above us and the
feeling of duty within us.= _An Indian sage._
=The two most engaging powers of an author
are to make new things familiar and familiar
things new.= _Thackeray._
=The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning
and impudence.= _Carlyle._
=The ultimate rule= (in writing) =is: Learn so far= 30
=as possible to be intelligible and transparent--no
notice taken of your style, but solely of
what you express by it.= _Carlyle._
=The ultimate tendency of civilisation is towards
barbarism.= _Hare._
=The unconscious is the alone complete.= _Goethe._
=The Understanding is indeed thy window, too
clear thou canst not make it; but Fantasy
is thy eye, with its colour-giving retina,
healthy or diseased.= _Carlyle._
=The undiscovered country, from whose bourn /
No traveller returns.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The unfortunate are loud and loquacious= 35
=in their complaints, but real happiness is
content with its own silent enjoyment.=
_Gibbon._
=The unhappy= (_malheureux_) =are always wrong:
wrong in being so, wrong in saying so, wrong
in needing help of others, wrong in not being
able to help them.= _Mirabeau._
=The unimaginative person can neither be
reverent nor kind.= _Ruskin._
=The universe has three children, born at one
time ... called cause, operation, and effect,
or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and
the Son. These three are equal ... and
each has the power of the others latent in
him.= _Emerson._
=The universe is a thought of God.= _Schiller._
=The universe is an infinite sphere, the centre= 40
=of which is everywhere, and the circumference
nowhere.= _Pascal after St. Augustus._
=The universe is but one vast symbol of God;
nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself
but a symbol of God; is not all that he does
symbolical; a revelation to sense of the
mystic god-given force that is in him; a
"gospel of freedom," which he, the "Messias
of Nature," preaches, as he can, by act and
word?= _Carlyle._
=The universe is full of love, but also of inexorable
sternness and severity.= _Carlyle._
=The universe is not dead and demoniacal, a
charnel-house with spectres, but godlike,
and my Father's.= _Carlyle._
=The universe is one great city, full of beloved
ones, human and divine, by nature endeared
to each other.= _Epictetus._
=The universe is that great egoist that decoys= 45
=us by the grossest bird-calls.= _Renan._
=The universe is the realised thought of God.=
_Carlyle._
=The universe stands by him who stands by
himself.= _Emerson._
=The universe would not be rich enough to buy
the vote of an honest man.= _St. Gregory._
=The unlearned man knoweth not what it is
to descend into himself and call himself to
account; nor the pleasure of that most
pleasant life which consists in our daily
feeling ourselves become better.= _Sir Walter
Raleigh._
=The unlettered peasant, whose views are only
directed to the narrow sphere around him,
beholds Nature with a finer relish, and tastes
her blessings with a keener appetite, than
the philosopher whose mind attempts to
grasp a universal system.= _Goldsmith._
=The unpastured sea hungering for calm.= 5
_Shelley._
=The unworn spirit is strong; life is so healthful
that it even finds nourishment in death.=
_Carlyle._
=The upper classes and people of wealth suffer
most from ennui.= _Schopenhauer._
=The Upper Crust=, _i.e._, the Upper Ten. _Amer._
=The Upper Ten=, _i.e._, the aristocracy; the upper
circles (contracted from Upper Ten Thousand).
_Amer._
=The upper current of society presents no certain= 10
=criterion by which we can judge of the
direction in which the under-current flows.=
_Macaulay._
=The upright shall dwell in the land, and the
perfect shall remain in it.= _Bible._
=The ups and downs of the world concern the
beggar no longer.= _Lamb._
=The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the
amusement of solitude, is to moderate the
passions, and learn to be contented with a
small expense, which are the certain effects
of a studious life; and it may be preferable
to that fame which men have engrossed to
themselves, and will not suffer us to share.=
_Lady Montagu._
=The use of travelling is to regulate imagination
by reality, and instead of thinking how
things may be, to see them as they are.=
_Johnson._
=The useful encourages itself, for the multitude= 15
=produce it, and no one can dispense with it;
but the beautiful must be encouraged, for
few can set it forth, and many need it.=
_Goethe._
=The useless men are those who never change
with the years.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker,
because his plough goeth every Sunday.=
_Bacon._
=The utmost point and acme of honour is not
merely in doing no evil, but in thinking none.=
_Ruskin._
=The uttered part of a man's life bears to the
unuttered, unconscious part of it a small
unknown proportion; he himself never knows
it, much less do others.= _Carlyle._
=The valiant in himself, what can he suffer? /= 20
=Or what need he regard his single woes?=
_Thomson._
=The valour of a just man is to conquer the
flesh, to contradict his own will, ... to
contemn the flatteries of prosperity, and
inwardly to overcome the fears of adversity.=
_S. Greg._
=The valour that struggles is better than the
weakness that endures.= _Hegel._
=The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in
your being able to bridle him, or, what is
better, in his being able to bridle himself.=
_Ruskin._
=The value of a thing is its life-giving power.=
_Ruskin._
=The vanity of loving fine clothes and new= 25
=fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is
one of the most childish pieces of folly that
can be.= _Sir Matthew Hale._
=The veneration we have for many things entirely
proceeds from their being carefully
concealed.= _Goldsmith._
=The very head and front of my offending /
Hath this extent, no more.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=The very joy of a true man's heart is to admire,
when he can; nothing so lifts him
from all his mean imprisonments, were it
but for moments, as true admiration.= _Carlyle._
=The very meanest things are made supreme /
With innate ecstasy.= _Blanchard._
=The very nature of the dilettanti is that they= 30
=have no idea of the difficulties which lie in a
subject, and always wish to undertake
something for which they have no capacity.=
_Goethe._
=The very pain of loving is all other joys before.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=The very society of joy redoubles it, so that,
whilst it lights upon my friend, it rebounds
upon myself, and the brighter his candle
burns the more easily will it light mine.=
_South._
=The vessel that will not obey her helm will
have to obey the rocks.= _Breton and Cornish
Pr._
=The vice of our housekeeping is that it does
not hold man sacred.= _Emerson._
=The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us= 35
=within ourselves.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The victories of character are instant, and
victories for all.= _Emerson._
="The victory of Miltiades does not suffer me
to sleep."= _Themistocles, in reference to the
battle of Marathon._
=The violets and the mayflowers are as the
inscriptions or vignettes of spring. It always
makes a pleasant impression on us
when we open again at these pages of the
book of life, its most charming chapter.=
_Goethe._
=The virtue of great souls is justice= (_Gerechtigkeit_).
_Platen._
=The virtue of justice consists in moderation,= 40
=as regulated by wisdom.= _Arist._
=The virtue of man is, in a word, the great
proof of God.= _Renan._
=The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the
virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in
morals is the more heroical virtue.= _Bacon._
=The virtue of sex is the occasion of mutual
teaching; the woman preaching love in the
ears of justice, and the man justice in the
ears of love.= _Amiel._
=The virtue of the man who lives according to
the precepts of reason shows itself equally
great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers.=
_Spinoza._
=The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he
who is destitute of the practice of virtue
delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth
from the forest to the lotus, whilst
the frog is destitute of shelter.= _Hitopadesa._
=The virtuous man, from his justice and the
affection he hath for mankind, is the dispeller
of sorrow and pain.= _Hitopadesa._
=The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light,
springing from the body as a flash of lightning
darts from the cloud; the soul that is
carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy
and dank vapour, can with difficulty be kindled,
and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.=
_Heraclitus._
=The visible creation is the terminus or the
circumference of the invisible world.= _Emerson._
=The vitality of man is great.= _Carlyle._ 5
=The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is
easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that
it is impossible to mistake it.= _Mme. de Staël._
=The voice of prophecies is like that of whispering-places;
they who are near hear nothing,
those at the first extremity will know all.=
_Sir Thomas Browne._
=The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.=
_Schiller._
=The voice of the people ought always to meet
with attention, though it does not always
claim obedience.= _Fox._
=The vulgar estimate themselves by what they= 10
=do; the noble by what they are.= _Schiller._
=The vulgar great are comprehended and
adored, because they are in reality on the
same moral plane with those who admire;
but he who deserves the higher reverence
must himself convert the worshipper.= _Lord
Houghton._
=The vulgar keep no account of your hits, but of
your misses.= _Pr._
=The wail of grief is more sympathetic than the
shout of triumph.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The walking of man and all animals is a falling
forward.= _Emerson._
=The want of belief is a defect which ought to= 15
=be concealed when it cannot be overcome.=
_Swift._
=The want of occupation is no less the plague
of society than of solitude.= _Rousseau._
=The want of perception is a defect which all
the virtues of the heart cannot supply.=
_Thoreau._
=The warl'ly race may riches chase, / And
riches still may flee them; / And though at
last they catch them fast, / Their hearts can
ne'er enjoy them.= _Burns._
=The watchful mother tarries nigh, / Though
sleep has clos'd her infant's eye.= _Keble._
=The way in which we form our ideas gives= 20
=character to our minds.= _Rousseau._
=The way of the superior man is threefold--virtuous,
he is free from anxieties; wise, he
is free from perplexities; bold, he is free
from fear.= _Confucius._
=The way of the wicked is an abomination unto
the Lord.= _Bible._
=The way of the world is to make laws, but
follow customs.= _Montaigne._
=The way of this world is to praise dead saints
and persecute living ones.= _Rev. N. Howe._
=The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our= 25
=passions, but by compelling them to yield
their vigour to our moral nature.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The way to avoid the imputation of impudence
is not to be ashamed of what we do, but
never to do what we ought to be ashamed
of.= _Cic._
=The way to be original is to be healthy.=
_Lowell._
=The way to get rid of wretchedness is to despise
it; to conquer the devil is to defy him;
to gain heaven is to turn your back upon it,
and be as unflinching as the gods themselves.
Satan may be roasted in his own flames;
Tophet may be exploded with its own sulphur.=
_John Burroughs upon Carlyle's teaching._
=The way to heaven is set with briars and
thorns; and they who arrive at the kingdom
travel over craggy rocks and comfortless
deserts.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The way to make thy son rich is to fill / His= 30
=mind with rest, before his trunk with riches.=
_George Herbert._
=The way to mend the bad world is to create
the right world.= _Emerson._
=The way to wealth is as plain as the way to
market; it depends chiefly on two words--industry
and frugality.= _Franklin._
=The way to write quickly is to write well.=
_Quinct._
=The way, truth, and life have been found in
Christianity, and will not now be found outside
of it.= _Matthew Arnold._
=The way's not easy where the prize is great.= 35
_Quarles._
=The ways in which most men get their living,
that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a
shirking of the real business of life; chiefly
because they do not know, but partly because
they do not mean better.= _Thoreau._
=The weakest goes to the wall.= _Rom. and
Jul._, i. 1.
=The weakest spot in every man is where he
thinks himself to be the wisest.= _G. Emmons._
=The wealth of a country is in its good men and
women, and in nothing else.= _Ruskin._
=The wealth of a man is the number of things= 40
=which he loves and blesses, which he is loved
and blessed by.= _Carlyle._
=The wealth of both Indies seems in great part
but an accessory to the command of the seas.=
_Bacon._
=The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem
one single opportunity which you have once
let slip.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The wealth of the land / Comes from the forge
and the smithy and mine, / From hammer
and chisel, and wheel and band, / And the
thinking brain and the skilful hand.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=The wealth we cannot wisely administer is an
encumbrance.= _Goethe._
=The weariest and most loathéd worldly life, /= 45
=That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment /
Can lay on nature, is a paradise / To what
we fear of death.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The wearisome is in permanence here.= _Carlyle
at Linlathen, in Forfarshire._
=The weary night o' care and grief / May hae
a joyful morrow.= _Burns._
=The web of this world is woven of necessity and
contingency; the reason of man places itself
between them, and knows how to rule them
both. It treats the necessary as the ground
of its existence; the contingent it knows how
to direct, lead, and utilise; and it is only
while reason stands firm and steadfast that
man deserves to be called the god of the
earth. Woe to him who has accustomed
himself from his youth to incline to find
something arbitrary in what is necessary,
who would fain ascribe a kind of reason to
the contingent, which it were even a religion
to follow; what is that but to disown one's
own understanding, and to give loose reins
to one's inclinations? We imagine it piety
to saunter along= (_hinschlendern_) =without consideration,
and to allow ourselves to be determined
by agreeable accidents, and finally
give to the results of such a vacillating life
the name of Divine guidance.= _Goethe._
=The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good
and ill together; our virtues would be proud
if our faults whipped them not, and our
crimes would despair if they were not
cherished by our virtues.= _All's Well_, iv. 3.
=The wedge will rend rocks; but its edge must
be sharp and single; if it is double, the wedge
is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing.=
_Carlyle._
=The wheel is always in motion, and the spoke
which is uppermost will soon be under;
therefore mix trembling with all your joy.=
_Philip Henry._
=The whole art of war consists in getting at= 5
=what is on the other side of the hill, or, in
other words, in learning what we do not
know from what we do.= _Duke of Wellington._
=The whole course of things goes to teach us
faith.= _Emerson._
=The whole difference between a man of genius
and other men ... is that the former remains
in great part a child, seeing with the large
eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not
conscious of much knowledge--conscious
rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite
power.= _Ruskin._
=The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.=
_Emerson._
=The whole interest of history lies in the fortunes
of the poor.= _Emerson._
=The whole function of the artist in the world is= 10
=to be a seeing and a feeling creature; to be
an instrument of such tenderness and sensitiveness
that no shadow, no hue, no line, no
instantaneous and evanescent expression of
the visible things around him, nor any of the
emotions which they are capable of conveying
to the spirit which has been given him,
shall either be left unrecorded, or fade from
the book of record.= _Ruskin._
=The whole man to one thing at a time.=
_Pr._
=The whole of chivalry and of heraldry is in
courtesy.= _Emerson._
=The whole past is the possession of the present.=
_Carlyle._
=The whole spiritual universe exists only in
process--what Hegel calls "Der Process
des Geistes"--the process of the spirit, that
is to say, not as become, but as becoming;
and if it once ceases to become, it ceases as
such to be.= _Ed._
=The whole universe is at all moments saying= 15
="Nay" to the Spirit of God, and God's
Spirit is at all moments saying "Yea" to
the stolid "Nay" of the universe, which
would fain be let alone; but stubborn as
the material looks and is, it has to obey,
and does obey, the voice of God.= _Ed._
=The whole world is, properly speaking, a tragic=
_embarras_. _Rahel._
=The whole world of truth and conscience is
nothing without I.= _Jean Paul._
=The wide pasture is but separate spears of
grass; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but
isolated flowers.= _Ward Beecher._
=The wife can carry more out of the house in
her apron than the man can bring in on a
harvest-waggon.= _Rückert._
=The wife is the key of the house.= _Pr._ 20
=The wife that expects to have a good name /
Is always at home as if she were lame; /
And the mind that is honest, her chiefest
delight, / Is still to be doing from morning
till night.= _Sp. Pr._
=The will appears without its mask only in the
affections and the passions.= _Schopenhauer._
=The willow which bends to the tempest often
escapes better than the oak which resists it.=
_Scott._
=The wind that has its nest in trees.= _J. M.
Barrie._
=The winds and the waves are always on the= 25
=side of the ablest navigators.= _Gibbon._
=The winter of our discontent.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil
we can, and using what is inevitable to the
best purpose.= _Ruskin._
=The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy. Collect and
learn them; they are notable measures and
directions for human life; you have much in
little; they save time in speaking; and upon
occasion may be the fullest and safest
answers.= _William Penn._
=The wisdom of the wise and the experience of
ages may be preserved by quotation.= _Isaac
Disraeli._
=The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary= 30
=minds by experience, the stupid by necessity,
and brutes by instinct.= _Cic._
=The wise are polite all the world over, but
fools are only polite at home.= _Goldsmith._
=The wise are those who travel through error
to truth; the foolish are those who persist
in their error.= _Rückert._
=The wise grumbler ... is a public benefactor.=
_John Wagstaffe._
=The wise have all ever said the same thing,
and the fools, who are always in the majority,
have always done just the opposite.= _Schopenhauer._
=The wise in heart shall be called the prudent.= 35
_Bible._
=The wise man always looks to the degree of
his indulgences.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The wise man can dispense with the favour of
the mighty, but the mighty cannot dispense
with the teaching of the wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man does not grasp at what is far off
in order to find what is near, and his hand
does not grasp at the stars in order to kindle
light.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth
elevated and very honourable stations;
whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth,
acquireth the post of disgrace.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man expects everything from himself;
the fool looks to others.= _Jean Paul._
=The wise man had rather be envied for providence
than pitied for prodigality.= _Socrates._
=The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.=
_Ger. Pr._
=The wise man knows his master; always some= 5
=creature larger than himself, some law holier
than himself.= _Ruskin._
=The wise man knows that he does not know;
the ignoramus thinks he knows.= _Sp. Pr._
=The wise man may strive to conquer, but he
should never fight; because victory, it is
observed, cannot be constant to both combatants.=
_Hitopadesa._
=The wise man moveth with one foot, and
standeth fast with the other. A man should
not quit one place until he hath fixed upon
another.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man must go to the foolish, else
would his wisdom go for nought, since the
foolish never come to the wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man often shuns society for fear of= 10
=being bored.= _La Bruyère._
=The wise man ought to despise glory, but not
honour. Honour is but seldom where glory
is, and glory almost more rarely still where
honour is.= _Seume._
=The wise man should study the acquisition of
science and riches as if he were not subject
to sickness and death; but to the duties of
religion he should attend as if death had
seized him by the hair.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man will commit no business of importance
to a proxy when he may do it
himself.= _L'Estrange._
=The wise men of old have sent most of their
morality down the stream of time in the
light skiff of apothegm or epigram.= _Whipple._
=The wise through excess of wisdom is made a= 15
=fool.= _Emerson._
=The wise weigh their words in a balance for
gold.= _Ecclus._
=The wise will determine from the gravity of the
case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression;
the high-minded, from disdain and
indignation at abusive power in unworthy
hands.= _Burke._
=The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age
takes away / Than what it leaves behind.=
_Wordsworth._
=The wisest at most observe only how fate
leads them, and are content.= _Foster._
=The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness= 20
=of a child.= _Emerson._
=The wisest, happiest of our kind are they /
That ever walk content with Nature's way.=
_Wordsworth._
=The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His
secrets universally to the seeing eye and the
hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness
is nowhere wanting, only the sense to
discern it, and the courage to be true to it.=
_Ed._
=The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly
lo'ed the lasses O.= _Burns._
=The wisest men are wise to the full in death.=
_Ruskin._
=The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in= 25
=these days pass for a divine one; the word
"inspiration" still lingers, but only in the
shape of a poetic figure, from which the once
earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has
vanished without return.= _Carlyle._
=The wisest of us must, for by far the most part,
judge like the simplest; estimate importance
by mere magnitude, and expect that which
strongly affects our own generation, will
strongly affect those that are to follow.=
_Carlyle._
=The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest.=
_Carlyle._
=The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant
of something that you know, but an elegant
woman never forgets her elegance.= _Holmes._
=The wish was father to the thought.= 2 _Hen.
IV._, iv. 4.
=The wished-for comes too late.= _Pr._ 30
=The wishing-gate opens into nothing.= _Spurgeon._
=The wit of language is so miserably inferior
to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven
out of good company.= _Sydney Smith._
=The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many.=
_Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb._
=The wit one wants spoils what one has.= _Fr.
Pr._
=The woman and the soldier who do not defend= 35
=the first pass will never defend the last.=
_Fielding._
=The woman that deliberates is lost.= _Addison._
=The woman's cause is man's: they rise or
sink / Together.= _Tennyson._
=The womankind will not drill.= _Carlyle, Father
Andreas in "Sartor."_
=The women are quick enough--they're quick
enough. They know the rights of a story
before they hear it, and can tell a man what
his thoughts are before he knows 'em himself.=
_George Eliot._
=The word is always bolder than the deed.= 40
_Schiller._
=The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest
do it.= _Bible._
=The word of a gentleman is as good as his
bond--sometimes better.= _Dickens._
=The words of a man's mouth are as deep
waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a
flowing brook.= _Bible._
=The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds,
and they go down into the innermost parts
of the belly.= _Bible._
=The words of men are like the leaves of trees;= 45
=when they are too many they hinder the
growth of the fruit.= _Steiger._
=The words of the wise are as goads.= _Pr._
=The words that a father speaks to his children
in the privacy of home are not heard by the
world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they
are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.=
_Jean Paul._
=The work an unknown good man has done is
like a vein of water flowing hidden under
ground, secretly making the ground green;
it flows and flows, it joins itself with other
veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth
as a visible perennial well.= _Carlyle._
=The work of righteousness shall be peace.=
_Bible._
=The work of science is to substitute facts for
appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.=
_Ruskin._
=The works of the great poets have only been
read for most part as the multitude read the
stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically.=
_Thoreau._
=The world can never give / The bliss for which
we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, /
Nor all of death to die.= _Montgomery._
=The world cannot be governed without juggling.= 5
_Selden._
=The world cannot do without great men, but
great men are very troublesome to the
world.= _Goethe._
=The world considers eccentricity in great
things genius: in small things, folly.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=The world does not progress so quickly as a
man grows old.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The world exists by change, and but for that /
All matter would to chaos back / To form a
pillar for a sleeping god.= _Anon._
=The world exists for the education of each= 10
=man.= _Emerson._
=The world exists only by the strength of its
silent virtue.= _Ruskin._
=The world goes up, and the world goes down, /
And the sunshine follows the rain; / And
yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, /
Can never come over again.= _C. Kingsley._
=The world grows more majestic, but man
grows less.= _Amiel._
=The world has no business with my life; the
world will never know my life, if it should
write and read a hundred biographies of me.=
_Carlyle._
=The world has to obey him who thinks and= 15
=sees in the world.= _Carlyle._
=The world is a carcase, and they who gather
round it are dogs.= _Eastern Pr._
=The world is a comedy to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel.= _Horace Walpole._
=The world is a grand book from which to
become wiser.= _Goethe._
=The world is a looking-glass, and gives back
to every man the reflection of his own face.
Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly
upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a
jolly kind companion.= _Thackeray._
=The world is a prison.= _Goethe._ 20
=The world is a thing that man must learn to
despise, and even to neglect, before he can
learn to reverence it, and work in it and for
it.= _Carlyle._
=The world is a wheel, and it will all come
round right.= _Disraeli._
=The world is all barren to him who will not
cultivate the fruit it offers.= _Sterne._
=The world is always ready to receive talent
with open arms. Very often it does not
know what to do with genius. Talent is a
docile creature. It bows its head meekly
while the world slips the collar over it. It
backs into the shafts like a lamb.= _Holmes._
=The world is an excellent judge in general,= 25
=but a very bad one in particular.= _Lord
Greville._
=The world is an old woman, that mistakes
any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby,
being often cheated, she will henceforth
trust nothing but the common copper.=
_Carlyle._
=The world is as you take it.= _Pr._
=The world is but an allegory; the idea is more
real than the fact.= _Amiel._
=The world is content with words; few think
of searching into the nature of things.=
_Pascal._
=The world is everywhere perfect except where= 30
=man comes with his pain.= _Schiller._
=The world is fain to sully what is resplendent,
and to drag down to the dust what is exalted.=
_Schiller._
=The world is for him who has patience.= _It. Pr._
=The world is glorious to look at, but dreadful
in reality; it is one thing as a drama to a
spectator, quite another thing to the actors
in the plot, for in it the will is thwarted at
every turn.= _Schopenhauer._
=The world is governed much more by opinion
than by laws.= _Channing._
=The world is governed too much.= (?) 35
=The world is not our peers, so we challenge
the jury.= _Burns._
=The world is not thy friend, nor the world's
law.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 1.
=The world is not to be despised but as it is
compared with something better. Company
is in itself better than solitude, and pleasure
better than indolence.= _Johnson._
=The world is nothing but a wheel; in its whole
periphery it is everywhere similar, but,
nevertheless, it appears to us so strange,
because we ourselves are carried round with
it.= _Goethe._
=The world is nothing; the man is all.= _Emerson._ 40
=The world is only governed by self-interest.=
_Schiller._
=The world is so busied with selfish pursuits,
ambition, vanity, interest, or pleasure, that
very few think it worth their while to make
any observation on what passes around
them, except where that observation is a
sucker, or branch of the darling plant they
are rearing in their fancy.= _Burns._
=The world is still deceived with ornament. /
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, /
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, /
Obscures the show of evil? In religion, /
What damnéd error but some sober brow /
Will bless it and approve it with a text, /
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?=
_Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=The world is too much with us; late and soon, /
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers; / Little we see in Nature that is
ours.= _Wordsworth._
=The world is undone by looking at things at a= 45
=distance.= _Sir Thomas More._
=The world is upheld by the veracity of good
men; they make the earth wholesome.=
_Emerson._
=The world is wide enough for all to live and
let live, and every one has an enemy in his
own talent, who gives him quite enough to
do. But no! one gifted man and one talented
persecutes another ... and each seeks to
make the other hateful.= _Goethe._
=The world is wider than any of us think.=
_Carlyle._
=The world knows nothing of its greatest men.=
_Sir Henry Taylor._
=The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit
to know what they mean when in it.= _Cecil._
=The world ... may overlook most of us; but
"reverence thyself."= _Burns._
=The world never let a man bless it but it first= 5
=fought him.= _Ward Beecher._
=The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy
of himself; this world is the multiplex
"image of his own dream."= _Carlyle._
=The world of reality has its limits; the world
of imagination is boundless. Not being able
to enlarge the one, let us contract the other;
for it is from their difference alone that all
the evils arise which render us really unhappy.=
_Rousseau._
=The world of thought must remain apart from
the world of action, for if they once coincided
the problem of life would be solved, and the
hope which we call heaven would be realised
on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled
into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering
what they teach in song."= _Lord Houghton._
=The world owes all its onward impulses to
men ill at ease.= _Hawthorne._
=The world owes infinitely more to those who= 10
=have no history than to those who have;
and the silent noble ones, who have enriched
and exalted it by their mere presence, form
a much grander and greater host than those
do whose names stand emblazoned in written
story, and are the loud boast of all.= _Ed._
=The world remains ever the same.= _Goethe._
=The world seldom offers us any choice between
solitude on the one hand and vulgarity on
the other.= _Schopenhauer._
=The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms
and waves cannot drown him.= _Emerson._
=The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall
not trifle with Shakespeare, the player, nor
shall grope in graves with Swedenborg, the
mourner; but who shall see, speak, and
act with equal inspiration.= _Emerson._
=The world that surrounds you is the magic= 15
=glass of the world within you. To know
yourself you have only to set down a true
statement of those that ever loved or hated
you.= _Lavater._
=The world throws its life into a hero or a
shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted.
Dante and Columbus were Italians in their
time; they would be Russians or Americans
to-day.= _Emerson._
=The world truly exists only in the presence of
man, acts only in the passion of man. The
essence of light is in his eyes--the centre of
force in his soul--the pertinence of action in
his deeds.= _Ruskin._
=The world, which took but six days to make,
is like to take six thousand to make out.=
_Sir Thomas Browne._
=The world's a bubble, and the life of man less
than a span.= _Bacon._
=The world's a room of sickness, where each= 20
=heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest! /
The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, /
Is his who skills of comfort best.= _Keble._
=The world's a sea.= _Quarles._
=The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, /
Though by a different path each goes astray.=
_Buckingham._
=The world's battle-fields have been in the
heart chiefly. More heroism has there been
displayed in the household and in the closet,
I think, than on the most memorable military
battle-fields of history.= _Ward Beecher._
=The world's great men have not commonly
been great scholars, nor its great scholars
great men.= _Holmes._
=The world's wealth is its original men; by= 25
=these and their works it is a world and not
a waste; the memory and record of what
Men it loves--this is the sum of its strength,
its sacred "property for ever," whereby it
upholds itself and steers forward, better or
worse, through the yet undiscovered deep
of Time.= _Carlyle._
=The worse the man, the better the soldier; if
soldiers be not corrupt, they ought to be
made so.= _Napoleon._
=The worse things are, the better they are.=
_Pr._
=The worship of beauty apart from the soul becomes
an idolatry enkindling desire instead
of a reverence awakening devotion.= _Ed._
=The worst deluded are the self-deluded.= _Bovee._
=The worst education which teaches self-denial= 30
=is better than the best which teaches everything
else, and not that.= _John Sterling._
=The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.=
_Pope._
=The worst of many is that their goodness is
distributed rather than concentrated. They
are like a sheet of water instead of being
like a running stream, which can be used
to turn a wheel.= _Spurgeon._
=The worst superstition is to consider our own
the most tolerable.= _Lessing._
=The worst wheel in the waggon creaks the
loudest.= _Ger. Pr._
=The worst wild beast is called "Tyrant," and= 35
=the "Flatterer" the worst tame one.= _Lessing._
=The worth of a state, in the long-run, is the
worth of the individuals composing it.= _J. S.
Mill._
=The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.=
_Pr._
=The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness
of God.= _St. James._
=The wretched have no friends.= _Dryden._
=The wretchedness which fate has rendered= 40
=voiceless and tuneless is not the least
wretched, but the most.= _Carlyle._
=The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible
than those of the brow.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=The writer of a book, is not he a preacher
preaching not to this parish or that, on this
day or that, but to all men in all times and
places?= _Carlyle._
=The wronged side is always the safest.= _Sibbes._
=The young disease, that must subdue at
length, / Grows with his growth, and
strengthens with his strength.= _Pope._
=The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative,= 45
=but in a more advanced state it grows
rigid, and must be warmed and softened
before it will receive a deep impression.=
_Joshua Reynolds._
=The young talk generously of relieving the
old of their burdens, but the anxious heart
is to the old when they see a load on the back
of the young.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The youth gets together his materials to build
a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace
on the earth; at length middle-aged, he
concludes to build a woodshed with them.=
_Thoreau._
=The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity
is youth.= _Jean Paul._
=Their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven.= _Jesus of children._
=Their chief pleasure is being displeased.= 5
_Whipple._
=Their only labour was to kill the time, / And
labour dire it is, and weary woe.= _Thomson._
=Their own will to all men, all their will to
women.= _Gael. Pr._
=Their strength is to sit still.= _Bible._
=Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to
reason why, / Theirs but to do or die.= _Tennyson._
=Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.= 10
_George Eliot._
=Then draw we nearer day by day, / Each to
his brethren, all to God; / Let the world
take us as she may, / We must not change
our road.= _Keble._
=Then fare-ye-weel, auld Nickle Ben, / Oh wad
ye tak' a thought and men', / Ye aiblins= (perhaps)
=might--I dinna ken, / Still hae a stake;/
I'm wae to think upon yon den / E'en for
your sake.= _Burns._