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PREFACE 
 
 In this Handy Dictionary of Prose Quota- 
 tions the compiler has sought to put into a book 
 of convenient size for ready use brief extracts from 
 the sayings of many writers on topics which inter- 
 est the reading and thinking public. The selec- 
 tions cover a wide range, from the precepts of the 
 Chinese philosopher Confucius to the latest utter- 
 ances of Senator Hoar on '• Imperialism," and of 
 Prince von Bismarck on the destiny of the United 
 States. The extracts number 2138, and are chosen 
 from the writings of 368 authors/chiefly American 
 and British. In addition to the interest in the 
 topics illustrated, it is believed this little volume 
 will give the reader a good idea of the force 
 of the principal words of our language as em- 
 ployed by the masters of English literature. Many 
 large collections of well-established authority have 
 been drawn from, especially the very full " Dic- 
 tionary of Prose Quotations," by Anna L. Ward 
 (published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.). Re- 
 cent authors have been consulted, and such selec- 
 tions made as were thought suitable to illustrate 
 the topics under consideration. To his predeces- 
 
 iii 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 sors in this line the compiler is under obligation, 
 and they will receive the thanks therefor of one 
 whose labors as a proofreader for many years 
 have been lightened by their work. The Index 
 of Authors gives the birthplace, and elate of birth 
 and death, of the writers. The Index to Quota- 
 tions indicates the leading thought of the extract. 
 These indexes, which are full and complete, have 
 been carefully prepared by Mrs. Grace E. Powers, 
 who has also rendered valuable assistance in pre- 
 paring the work for the press and in reading the 
 proofs . 
 
 G. W. P. 
 
 Dokchestek, Mass., July y 1901. 
 
HANDY DICTIONARY OF PROSE 
 QUOTATIONS. 
 
 A. 
 
 Ability. 
 
 As we advance in life, we learn the limits of 
 our abilities. Froude : Short Studies on Great 
 
 1 Subjects. Education. 
 
 There is great ability in knowing how to con- 
 ceal one's ability. 
 
 2 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. ISTo. 245. 
 
 Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as 
 the ability to investigate systematically and truly 
 all that comes under thy observation in life. 
 
 3 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iii., 11. 
 
 Abundance. 
 
 Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he 
 shall have abundance ; but from him that hath not 
 shall be taken away even that which he hath. 
 
 4 New Testament: Mark xxv. 29. 
 
 Acquaintance. 
 
 If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth 
 knowing well. 
 
 5 Alexander Smith : Dreamthorp, 
 
 1 
 
2 DICTIONARY OF t>ROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Action. 
 
 A perfect feeling eventuates in some form of 
 action. Action is the right outlet of emotion. 
 
 6 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from 
 
 . Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Every man feels instinctively that all the beauti- 
 ful sentiments in the world weigh less than a 
 single lovely action. 
 
 7 Lowell : Rousseau and the Sentimentalists. 
 
 What the Puritans gave the world was not 
 thought, but action. 
 
 8 Wendell Phillips: Speech, Dec. 21, 1855. 
 
 When Demosthenes was asked what was the 
 first part of oratory, he answered, " Action; " and 
 which was the second, he replied, << Action ; " and 
 which was the third, he still answered, " Action." 
 
 9 Plutarch: Lives of the Ten Orators. 
 
 Actors. 
 
 Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and 
 heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak 
 it profanely, that neither having the accent of 
 Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor 
 man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have 
 thought some of Nature's journeymen had made 
 men, and not made them well, they imitated hu- 
 manity so abominably. 
 
 10 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Admiration. 
 
 Great men are still admirable ; I say there is, at 
 bottom, nothing else admirable. 
 
 11 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 6 
 
 That wonderful book, while it obtains admira- 
 tion from the most fastidious critics, is loved by 
 those who are too simple to admire it. 
 
 12 Macaulay : On Bunyan's Pilgrim' s 
 
 Progress, 1831. 
 Admiration is an art which we must learn. 
 
 13 George P. Upton: Memories. (Trans- 
 
 lated from the German.) 
 Adversity. 
 
 Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but 
 for one man who can stand prosperity there are a 
 hundred that will stand adversity. 
 
 l-i Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 There is no education like adversity. 
 
 15 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Endymio?i, Ch. 61. 
 
 In the adversity of our best friends we always 
 
 find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. 
 
 16 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. No. 15. 
 
 Advice. 
 
 Had I been present at the creation, I would have 
 given some useful hints for the better ordering of 
 the universe. 
 
 17 Alphonso the Wise. 
 
 The advice that is wanted is generally unwel- 
 come, and that which is not wanted is evidently 
 impertinent. 
 
 18 Dr. Johnson: Letters to and from the 
 
 Late Samuel Johnson. 
 
 He who gives advice to a self-conceited man 
 stands himself in need of counsel from another. 
 
 19 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. Rules for 
 
 Conduct in Life. No. 27. 
 
4 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Affectation. 
 
 Affectation is as necessary to the mind, as dress 
 is to the body. 
 
 20 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 157. 
 
 Affections. 
 
 Our affections are our life. We live by these. 
 They supply our warmth. 
 
 21 Channing: Note-book. Friendship. 
 
 Set your affections on things above, not on things 
 on the earth. 
 
 22 New Testament: Colossians iii. 2. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commen- 
 dation of age, that age appears to be best in four 
 things, — old wood best to barn, old wine to drink, 
 old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 
 
 23 Bacon: Apothegms. No. 97. 
 
 Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and 
 its own ways. 
 
 24 Boileau: The Art of Poetry, Can. iii., 374. 
 
 Age . . . is a matter of feeling, not of years . 
 
 25 George William Curtis : True and I. 
 
 Some smack of age in vou, some relish of the 
 saltness of time. 
 
 26 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Ambition. 
 
 Ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride 
 of no person in a nourishing condition is more 
 justly to be dreaded than that of him who is mean 
 and cringing under a doubtful and un prosperous 
 fortune. Burke: Letters on a Begicide Peace. 
 
 27 Letter iii. 1797. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 5 
 
 Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but 
 never the good fortune to satisfy us ; its appetite 
 grows keener by indulgence, and all we can 
 gratify it with at present serves but the more to 
 inflame its insatiable desires. 
 
 28 Bexjamix Fraxklix : On True Happiness. 
 
 Ambition is of a higher and more heroic strain 
 than avarice. Its objects are nobler, and the 
 means by which it attains its ends less mechan- 
 ical. Hazlitt : Table Talk. Second Series, 
 
 29 Ft. L, Essay x. 
 
 America. 
 
 If any one attempts to haul down the American 
 flag, shoot him on the spot. 
 
 30 Johx A. Dix : An Official Despatch, 
 
 Jan. 29, 1861. 
 
 America has furnished to the world the charac- 
 ter of Washington. And if our American institu- 
 tions had done nothing- else, that alone would have 
 entitled them to the respect of mankind. 
 
 31 Daxiel Webster : Completion of Bunker 
 
 Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. 
 
 I was born an American ; I will live an Ameri- 
 can ; I shall die an American. 
 
 32 Daxiel Webster: Speech, July 17, 1850. 
 
 Amiability. 
 
 Amiableness is the object of love, the scope and 
 end is to obtain it, for whose sake we love, and 
 which our mind covets to enjoy. 
 
 33 Burtox : Anatomy of Melancholy, 
 
 Ft. Hi., Sec. L, Mem. 1, Subs. 2. 
 
6 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Amity. 
 
 With him who knocks at the door of peace, seek 
 not hostility. 
 
 34 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. Rules for 
 
 Conduct in Life. No. 14. 
 
 Amusement. 
 
 Amusement to an observing mind is study. 
 
 35 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Contarini Fleming, Pt. i., Ch. 23. 
 I am a great friend to public amusements, for 
 they keep people from vice. 
 
 36 Dr. Johnson: BosivelVs Life of Johnson, 
 
 II. 169. 
 Ancestry. 
 
 A man who has ancestors is like a representa- 
 tive of the past. 
 
 37 Bulwer-Lytton : The Lady of Lyons, 
 
 Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor 
 think it disgraceful to be descended from peas- 
 ants ; for when it is seen that thou art not thyself 
 ashamed, none will endeavor to make thee so. 
 
 38 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 
 
 (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 Our ancestors are very good kind of folks ; but 
 they are the last people I should choose to have a 
 visiting acquaintance with. 
 
 39 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 Think of your ancestors and yonr posterity. 
 
 40 Tacitus: Agricola, 32. 
 
 Anger. 
 
 Anjrer is a bow that will shoot sometimes where 
 another feeling will not. 
 
 41 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 7 
 
 The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens 
 the barb of Love. 
 
 42 Landor: Miscellaneous, LXVI. 
 
 The anger of lovers renews the strength of love. 
 
 43 Publius Syrus: Maxim 24. 
 
 Angling. 
 
 Angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to 
 be born so. 
 
 44 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler, 
 
 Pt. i., Ch. 1. 
 
 Annals. 
 
 Happy the people whose annals are blank in 
 history-books. 
 
 45 Carlyle : Life of Frederick the Great, 
 
 Bk. xvi., Ch. 1. 
 
 Antipathy. 
 
 There is one species of terror which those who 
 are unwilling to suffer the reproach of cowardice 
 have wisely dignified with the name of antipathy. 
 
 46 Dr. Johnson: Rambler. No. 126. 
 
 Antiquity. 
 
 Nothing is old but the mind. 
 
 47 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Progress of Culture. 
 
 Anxiety. 
 
 There is much unnecessary anxiety in the world, 
 which is apt too hastily to calculate the conse- 
 quences of any unforeseen event, quite forgetting 
 that, acute as it is in observation, the world, where 
 the future is concerned, is generally wrong. 
 
 48 Disraeli (Earl of Beacons field) : 
 
 Lothair, Ch. 86. 
 
8 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Apologies. 
 
 Apologizing, — a very desperate habit, — one 
 that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism 
 wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first 
 thing a man's companion knows of his shortcom- 
 ings is from his apology. 
 
 49 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast- 
 
 Table, Ch. 6. 
 
 Appearance. 
 
 If appearances are deceitful, then they do not 
 deserve any confidence when they assert what ap- 
 pears to them to be true. 
 
 50 Diogenes Laertius : Pyrrho, xi. 
 Judge not according to the appearance. 
 
 51 New Testament: John viii. 24. 
 
 Appetite. • 
 
 My appetite comes to me while eating. 
 
 52 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. ix., Of Vanity. 
 
 Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given 
 to appetite. 
 
 53 Old Testament : Proverbs xxiii. 2. 
 
 Applause. 
 
 Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end 
 and aim of weak ones. 
 
 54 Colton: Lacon. 
 
 Apprehension. 
 
 It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. 
 
 55 La BiiUYfeRE : Characters. Of Man. 
 Tn apprehension how like a god ! 
 
 56 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Arbiter. 
 
 His own character is the arbiter of every one's 
 fortune. 
 
 57 Publius Syrus : Maxim 283. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 9 
 
 Architecture. 
 
 Great edifices, like great mountains, are the 
 work of ages. 
 
 58 Victor Hugo: Notre Dame, Bk. iii., Ch. 1. 
 
 Architecture is a creation of the human intellect, 
 adding to the stores of beauty in the world. 
 
 59 Thomas Starr King : The While Hills. 
 
 Lake Winnipiseogee. 
 
 Architecture is the art which so disposes and 
 adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever 
 uses, that the sio-ht of them contributes to his 
 mental health, power, and pleasure. 
 
 60 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Arch., Ch. 1. 
 
 Argument. 
 
 A knock-down argument : 'tis but a word and 
 a blow. 
 
 61 Dryden : Amphitryon, Acti., Sc. 1. 
 
 There is no good In arguing with the inevitable. 
 
 62 Lowell: Democracy. Address , Bir- 
 
 mingham, Eng., Oct. 6, 1884. 
 
 The truth is always the strongest argument. 
 
 63 Sophocles: Phcedra, Frag. 737. 
 
 Aristocracy. 
 
 Natural aristocracy is the eminence of men over 
 their fellows in real mind and soul. 
 
 6-i Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from 
 
 Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 A social life which worships money, and pursues 
 social distinction as its aim, is, in spirit and in fact, 
 an aristocracy. 
 
 65 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar 
 
 Subjects. II. Fashion. 
 
10 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Arms. 
 
 If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, 
 while a foreign troop was landed in my country I 
 never would lay down my arms, — never ! never ! 
 never ! 
 
 66 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: 
 
 Speech, Nov. 18, 1777. 
 It behooves a prudent person to make trial of 
 everything before arms. 
 
 67 Terence: Eunuchus, Act iv., Sc. 7, 19. 
 
 Art. 
 
 Art can never give the rules that make an art. 
 
 68 Burke : The Sublime and Beautiful, 
 
 1756. Pt. i., Sec. 19. 
 
 Art is an absolute mistress ; she will not be co- 
 quetted with or slighted ; she requires the most 
 entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand 
 triumphs. 
 
 69 Charlotte Cushman : Charlotte Cushman 
 
 (Arnericcm Actors Series), Ch. 10. 
 The conscious utterance of thought by speech or 
 action, to any end, is art. 
 
 70 Emerson : Society and Solitude. Art. 
 Art is higher than nations, older than many 
 
 centuries. 
 
 71 Higginson: Atlantic Essays. A Plea 
 
 for Culture. 1867. 
 Art is nothing more than the shadow of human- 
 ity. Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies. 
 
 72 Lect. iii. Universality in Art. 
 The beautiful is the most useful in art ; but the 
 
 sublime in art is the most helpful to morals, for it 
 elevates the mind. 
 
 73 Joubert: Pensees. No. 326. (Attwell, Jr.) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 11 
 
 Art does not represent things falsely, but truly 
 as they appear to mankind. * 
 
 74 Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. The Fall, 
 
 Ch. 2. 
 Artists. 
 
 Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and 
 paints his own nature into his pictures. 
 
 75 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from 
 
 Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in 
 the sum of his works, the greatest number of the 
 greatest ideas. 
 
 76 Ruskin : Modem Painters, Pt. L, Sec. i., 
 
 Ch. 2. 
 Ascent. 
 
 The ascents from particular to general are all 
 successive, and each step of the ascent requires 
 time and labor. 
 
 77 John Stuart Mill: System of Logic. 
 
 Aspersion. 
 
 There, sir, an attack upon my language ! What 
 do you think of that? An aspersion upon my 
 parts of speech ! 
 
 78 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Aspiration. 
 
 Aspiration sees only one side of every question ; 
 possession many. 
 
 79 Lowell: Among My Books. Ne?v Eng- 
 
 land Two Centuries Ago. 
 Assassination. 
 
 Assassination has never changed the history of 
 the world. 
 
 80 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Speech, May, 1865. 
 
12 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Assault. 
 
 I would have thought her spirit had been invin- 
 cible against all assaults of affection. 
 
 81 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Assent. 
 
 Assent I have described to be a mental assertion ; 
 in its very nature, then, it is of the mind, and not 
 of the lips. 
 
 82 John H. Newman : Grammar of Assent. 
 
 Assertion. 
 
 The capacity of jelly to guide forces, which 
 Professor Huxley says is a fact of the profoundest 
 significance to him, is not a fact at all, but merely 
 an assertion. 
 
 83 Beale: Protoplasm, p. 85. 
 
 Assiduity. 
 
 By marvellous assiduity he [Pickering] was able 
 to lead two lives, one producing the fruits of earth, 
 the other those of immortality. 
 
 84 Charles Sumner: Orations, i., 140. 
 
 Association. 
 
 There are many objects of great value to man, 
 which cannot be attained by unconnected individ- 
 uals, but must be attained, if attained at all, by 
 association. 
 
 85 Daniel Webster : Speech at Pittsburg, 
 
 July, 1833. 
 Assumption. 
 
 The assumption of a final cause in the structure 
 of each part of animals and plants is as inevitable 
 as the assumption of a final cause for every event. 
 
 86 Whewell: Novanum Organ. Renovatum. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 13 
 
 Assurance. 
 
 God Almighty cannot prevent me from winning 
 a victory to-day. 
 
 87 Gen. Joseph Hooker : Letter to President 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, the day previous 
 to the fight at Chancellor sville. 
 
 Atheist. 
 
 Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in 
 no way alters his obligations. 
 
 88 % Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 
 
 Athens. 
 
 Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages 
 pain ; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which 
 fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the 
 dark house and the long sleep, — there is exhibited 
 in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. 
 
 89 Macaulay : On MitforcVs History of 
 
 Greece, 1824. 
 Attachment. 
 
 Cromwell had to determine whether he would 
 put to hazard the attachment of his party, the at- 
 tachment of his army, ... to save a prince whom 
 no engagement could bind. 
 
 90 Macaulay: History of England, Ch. 1. 
 
 Attention. 
 
 A trained pianist will play a new piece of music 
 at sight, and perhaps have so much attention to 
 spare that he can talk with you at the same time. 
 
 91 John Fiske: Excurs. of an Evolutionist. 
 
 Attestation. 
 
 The applause of the crowd makes the head 
 giddy, but the attestation of a reasonable man 
 makes the heart glad. 
 
 92 Steele: Spectator. No. 188. 
 
14 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Attitude. 
 
 When one maintains his proper attitude in life, 
 he does not long after externals. What would 
 you have, O man ? 
 
 93 Epictetus: Discourses, Ch. 21. 
 
 Attraction. 
 
 Setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I 
 have no other charm. 
 
 94 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Attribution. 
 
 His [God's] relative personality is shadowed 
 forth by the attribution to him of love, anger, and 
 other human feelings and sentiments. 
 
 95 Sir John W. Dawson : Origin of the World. 
 
 Attrition. 
 
 These were people trained by attrition with 
 man}' influences. 
 
 96 E. S. Phelps: Beyond the Gates. 
 
 Audacity. 
 
 Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. 
 
 97 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 115. (Eel. 1825.) 
 
 Augmentation. 
 
 He does smile his face into more lines than are in 
 the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. 
 
 98 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Austerity. 
 
 There is no show of mercy in him. He carried 
 his austerity beyond the bounds of humanity. 
 
 99 E. P. Whipple : Essays and Reviews, i., 20. 
 
 Authenticity. 
 
 We compare the narrative with the account of 
 the times when it was composed and are satisfied 
 with the authenticity of its leading anecdotes. 
 
 100 Milman : Latin Christianity, i., 3. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 15 
 
 Authors. 
 
 Writers, especially when they act in a body, and 
 in one direction, have great influence on the public 
 mind. Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in 
 
 101 France. 
 
 Every author, in some degree, portrays himself 
 in his works, even be it against his will. 
 
 102 Goethe : The Poet's Year. 
 
 The chief glory of every people arises from its 
 authors. 
 
 103 Dr. Johnson: Works. V. 49. (Ed. 1825.) 
 
 Authors 1 lives in general are not uniform, they 
 are strangely checkered by vicissitudes ; and even 
 were the outward circumstances uniform, the in- 
 ward struggles must still be various. 
 
 104 George Henry Lewes : The Spanish 
 
 Drama, Ch. 2. 
 
 Autocracy. 
 
 Man's will, that great seat of freedom, that with 
 a kind of autocracy and supremacy within itself 
 commands its own actions. 
 
 105 Robert South: Sermons, vii., 1. 
 
 Autumn. 
 
 Magnificent Autumn ! He comes not like a pil- 
 grim, clad in russet weeds. He comes not like a 
 hermit, clad in gray. But he comes like a war- 
 rior, with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. 
 His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner 
 drips with gore. His step is like a Hail upon the 
 threshing-floor. 
 
 106 Longfellow : Prose Works. Appendix II. 
 
 The Blank Book of a Country School- 
 master. XVII. Autumn. 
 
16 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Availability. 
 
 We do not choose our oivn candidate, no, nor 
 any other man's first choice, — but only the avail- 
 able candidate, whom perhaps no man loves. 
 
 107 Emerson: Miscellanies, p. 401. 
 
 Avarice. 
 
 Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal pas- 
 sion, which operates at all times, at all places, and 
 upon all persons. 
 
 108 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise and 
 
 the Progress of the Arts and Sciences. 
 Aversion. 
 
 Nothing is stronger than aversion. 
 
 109 Wycherley : The Gentleman Dancing- 
 
 Master, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 Awkwardness. 
 
 God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness 
 has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. 
 
 110 Emerson : Society and Solitude. 
 
 Azure. 
 
 A little speck of azure has widened in the west- 
 ern heavens. 
 
 111 Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales, Ch. 1. 
 
 B. 
 
 Babble. 
 
 Making merry in odd tones, and a babble of 
 outlandish words. 
 
 112 Hawthorne: Old Manse, Ch. 2. 
 
 Bachelor. 
 
 When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not 
 think I should live till I were married. 
 
 113 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 17 
 
 Bachelorhood. 
 
 Keeping in bachelorhood those least likely to be 
 long-lived. 
 
 114 Herbert Spencer: Study of Sociology. 
 
 Backbiters. 
 
 Satirists describe the a^e, and backbiters assign 
 their descriptions to private men. 
 
 115 Steele: Taller. No. 24. 
 
 Backbone. 
 
 The civilization is cheap and weak which has 
 not the backbone of conscience in it. 
 
 116 James Freeman Clarke: Self-Culture. 
 
 Backsliding. 
 
 Our backslidings are many; we have sinned 
 against thee. 
 
 117 Old Testament: Jeremiah xiv. 7. 
 
 Backwards. 
 
 There is a period of life when we go backwards 
 as we advance. 
 
 118 Rousseau: Emile, 1. ii. 
 
 Balancing. 
 
 Though I am well satisfied that it is not in my 
 power to balance accounts with my Maker, I am 
 resolved, however, to turn all my endeavors that 
 way. 
 
 119 Addison: Spectator. 
 
 Ballads. 
 
 Homer himself must beg if he want means, and 
 as by report sometimes he did 4t go from door to 
 door and sing ballads, with a company of boys 
 about him.'" 
 
 120 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , Pt. L, 
 
 Sec. ii., Mem. 4, Subs. 7. 
 
18 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I know a very wise man that believed that if a 
 man were permitted to make all the ballads, he 
 need not care who should make the laws of a 
 nation. 
 
 121 Andrew Fletcher :. Letter to the Mar- 
 
 quis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 
 
 Balm. 
 
 Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physi- 
 cian there ? 
 
 122 Old Testament : Jeremiah viii. 22. 
 
 Balsam. 
 
 Is this the balsam that the usuring senate pours 
 into captain's wounds ? 
 
 123 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Banners. 
 
 Terrible as an army with banners. 
 
 124 Old Testament: S. of Solomon, vi. 4, 10. 
 
 Battle. 
 
 What a charming thing's a battle ! 
 
 125 Isaac Bickerstaff: Recruiting Ser- 
 
 jeant, Sc. 4. 
 Beards. 
 
 He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and 
 he that hath no beard is less than a man. 
 
 126 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 Sir, you have the most insinuating manner, but 
 
 indeed you should get rid of that odious beard — 
 one might as well kiss a hedgehog. 
 
 127 Sheridan: The Duenna, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Beauty. 
 
 Beauty is based on reason. 
 
 128 Amiel: Journal, May 23, 1863. 
 
 Beauty without grace is the hook without the 
 bait. Beauty, without expression, tires. 
 
 129 Emerson : Conduct of Life. Beauty. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 19 
 
 Beauty is a welcome guest everywhere. 
 
 130 Goethe: Elective Affinities, Pt. i., Ch. 4. 
 Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even 
 
 by the simple fact of being beautiful ? 
 
 131 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 
 
 Pt. i., Bk. iii., Ch. 1. 
 
 Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source 
 of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself ; praise 
 forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor 
 the better for being praised. 
 
 132 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, iv., 20. 
 If we can perceive beauty in everything of God's 
 
 doing, we may argue that we have reached the 
 true perception of its universal laws. 
 
 133 Buskin: Modern Painters, Pt. iii., Ch. 3. 
 
 Beauty alone confers happiness on all, and under 
 its influence every being forgets that he is limited. 
 
 134 Schiller: Essays, JEsthetical and 
 
 Philosophical. Letter xxvii. 
 The worship of beauty, though beauty be itself 
 transformed and incarnate in shapes diverse with- 
 out end, must be simple and absolute, hence only 
 must the believer expect profit or reward. 
 
 135 Swinburne : Essays and Studies. Notes 
 
 on Some Pictures of 1868. 
 Beginning. 
 
 As the proverb says, ' a good beginning is half 
 the business,' and < to have begun well ' is praised 
 by all. 
 
 136 Plato: Laws, vi., 2. (Stephens.) 
 Behavior. 
 
 There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws 
 of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. 
 
 137 Emerson: Essays. Manners. 
 
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 Belief. 
 
 No iron chain, nor outward force of any kind, 
 could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to 
 disbelieve : it is his own indefeasible right, that 
 judgment of his ; he will reign and believe there 
 by the grace of God alone ! 
 
 138 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as a Priest. 
 Benevolence. 
 
 Disinterestedness is the divine notion of per- 
 fection ; disinterested benevolence is the supreme 
 ideal. 
 
 139 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs 
 
 from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, 
 and righteousness is his straight path. 
 
 140 Mencius: Works, Bk. iv., Pt. L, Ch. 10. 
 Bible. 
 
 The Bible is the great family chronicle of the 
 Jews. 
 
 141 Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. From 
 
 the << Travel-Pictures, Italy." 
 The English Bible, — a book which if every- 
 thing else in our language should perish, would 
 alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty 
 and power. 
 
 142 Macaulay: On John Dryden, 1828. 
 
 The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doc- 
 trine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, 
 of special revelation from God; but it is also a 
 book which teaches man his own individual re- 
 sponsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with 
 his fellow-man. 
 
 143 Daniel Webster: Speech, Charlestown, 
 
 Mass., June 17, 1843. 
 
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 Biography. 
 
 There is no kind of writing, which has truth 
 and instruction for its main object, so interesting 
 and popular, on the whole, as biography. 
 
 144 William H. Prescott : Biographical 
 and Critical Miscellanies. Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 Birds. 
 
 Never took for birds of this year in the nests of 
 the last. 
 
 145 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 74. 
 A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that 
 
 which hath wings shall tell the matter. 
 
 146 Old Testament : Ecclesiastes x. 20. 
 
 Blessings. 
 
 Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, 
 losses, and disappointments, but let him have 
 patience, and he will see them in their proper 
 figure. 
 
 147 Addison: The Guardian. No. 117. 
 
 Blood. 
 
 Blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. 
 
 148 Tertullian: Apologeticus, c. 50. 
 Blushes. 
 
 Better a blush in the face than a blot in the 
 heart. 
 
 149 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Bk. 
 
 iii., Ch. 44. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 Boasting, 
 
 Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou know- 
 est not what a day may bring forth. 
 
 150 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvii. 1. 
 
 Bone. 
 
 It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. 
 
 151 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 8. 
 
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 Books. 
 
 Books are the legacies that a °Teat genius leaves 
 to mankind, which are delivered down from srenera- 
 tion to generation, as presents to the posterity of 
 those who are yet unborn. 
 
 152 Addison: The Spectator. No. 166. 
 There is no time in life when books do not in- 
 fluence a man. 
 
 153 "Walter Besant: Books Which Have 
 
 Influenced Me. 
 The true university of these days is a collection 
 of books. 
 
 154 Carltle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Man of Letters. 
 There are men that will make you books, and 
 turn them loose into the world, with as much dis- 
 patch as they would do a dish of fritters. 
 
 155 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 3. 
 
 Books are the best things, well used: abused, 
 among the worst. 
 
 156 Emerson: Miscellanies. The American 
 
 Scholar. Cambridge, Mass.. Aug. 31. 1837. 
 
 Oh that mine adversary had written a book. 
 
 157 Old Testament: Job xxxi. 35. 
 
 Bores. 
 
 All men are bores, except when we want them. 
 There never was but one man whom I would trust 
 with mv latch-kev. 
 
 158 " Holmes: The Autocrat, Ch. 1. 
 Borrowing. 
 
 If you would know the value of money, go and 
 try to borrow some, for he that goes a-borrowing 
 goes a- sorrowing. 
 
 159 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Pilchard's Al. 
 
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 Boys. 
 
 Of all animals the boy is the most unmanage- 
 able, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason 
 in him not yet regulated. 
 
 160 Plato: Laws, vii., 14. (Stephens, p. 
 
 808, D.) 
 
 When one asked him [Agesilaus] what boys 
 should learn, " That," said he, " which they shall 
 use when men." 
 
 161 Plutarch: Laconic Apophthegms of 
 
 Agesilaus the Great. 
 Brains. 
 
 The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a 
 hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. 
 
 162 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Acti., Sc. 2. 
 
 Brawling, 
 
 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop 
 than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
 
 163 Old Testament: Proverbs xxi. 9. 
 
 Bravery. 
 
 A brave man inspires others to heroism, but his 
 own courage is not diminished when it enters into 
 other souls : it is stimulated and invigorated. 
 
 164 Washington Gladden: Things Old 
 
 and New. ILL. Nature and Spirit. 
 Bread. 
 
 Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt 
 find it after many days. 
 
 165 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xi. 1. 
 
 I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. 
 
 166 Swift: Polite Conversation, Dialogue \. 
 
 Bread is the staff of life. 
 
 167 Swift: A Tale of a Tub. Preface. 
 
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 Breath. 
 
 Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 
 
 168 Rabelais: Bk. v., Ch. 28. 
 Bribery. 
 
 In ray opinion it is less shameful for a king to be 
 overcome by force of arms than by bribery. 
 
 169 Sallust : Jugurtha, ex. 
 
 Buffoonery. 
 
 Buffoonery is often want of wit. 
 
 170 La Bruyere : Characters. Of Society 
 
 and Conversation {Rome, Translator). 
 Bulwarks. 
 
 Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever 
 state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, 
 commerce, and honest friendship with all nations. 
 — entangling alliances with none ; the support of 
 the State £overmnents in all their rights, as the 
 most competent administrations for our domestic 
 concerns, are the surest bulwarks against anti- 
 republican tendencies. 
 
 171 Thomas Jefferson : First Inaugural 
 
 Address, March -1, 1801. 
 Burdens. 
 
 Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, 
 and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who 
 have more of either than they know how to use. 
 
 172 Dr. Johxsox: The Idler. No. 30. 
 
 Business. 
 
 That which is everybody's business is nobody's 
 business. 
 
 173 Izaak Walton : The Complete Angler, 
 
 Pt. i., Ch. 2 
 Busybodies. 
 
 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering 
 about from house to house ; and not only idle, but 
 
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 tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which 
 they ought not. 
 
 174 New Testament : 1 Timothy v. 13. 
 
 Butter. 
 
 She looketh as butter would not melt in her 
 mouth. 
 
 175 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 10. 
 
 C. 
 
 Calamity. 
 
 Public calamity is a mighty leveller. 
 
 176 Burke: Sj>eech, March 22, 1775. On 
 
 Conciliation with America. 
 
 Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one 
 calamity. 
 
 177 Publius Syrus ; Maxim 274. 
 
 Calculations. 
 
 Nowhere are our calculations more frequently 
 upset than in war. 
 
 178 Liyy: Histories, xxx., 30. 
 
 Calumny. 
 
 Be thou as chaste as ice and pure as snow, thou 
 shalt not escape calumny. 
 
 179 Shaks, : Hamlet, Actiii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Cant. 
 
 Of all the cants which are canted in this canting 
 world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the 
 worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting ! 
 
 180 Laurence Sterxe : Tristram shandy 
 
 (orig. ed.), Vol. iii., Ch. 12. 
 Care. 
 
 Want of care does us more damage than want of 
 knowledge. 
 
 181 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Ah 
 
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 Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat. 
 
 182 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His 
 
 Humor, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares 
 of business ! 
 
 183 Publius Syrus: Maxim 725. 
 Care is an enemy to life. 
 
 184 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Caste. 
 
 A man should, whatever happens, keep to his 
 own caste, race, and breed. Let the White go to 
 the White and the Black to the Black. Then, 
 whatever trouble falls is in the ordinary course of 
 things — neither sudden, alien, nor unexpected. 
 
 185 Rud yard Kipling : Plain Tales from 
 
 the Hills. Beyond the Pale. 
 Castle. 
 
 For a man's house is his castle. 
 
 186 Sir Edward Coke: Third Institute, p. 162. 
 
 Cause. 
 
 It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes 
 which do not appear are to be considered as not 
 existing. 
 
 187 Hume: Essays. XX. Of National 
 
 Characters. 
 
 I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that 
 wit is in other men. 
 
 188 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 There is occasions and causes why and where- 
 fore in all things. 
 
 189 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. 
 
 190 Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia, Bk. i. 
 
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 Caution. 
 
 The cautious seldom err. 
 
 191 Confucius: Analects, Bk. iv. Ch. 23. 
 
 (Leggc, Translator.) 
 Censure. 
 
 Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for 
 being; eminent. 
 
 192 Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
 
 Chaff. 
 
 I can tell where my own shoe jrinches me ; and 
 you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with 
 chaff. 
 
 193 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iv., 
 
 Ch. 5. 
 
 His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in 
 two bushels of chaff. 
 
 194 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Chance. 
 
 Chance generally favors the prudent. 
 
 195 Joubert: Pensees. No. 147. 
 
 (Attivell, Translator.) 
 
 I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and 
 wisest consultations, for the most part commit 
 themselves to the conduct of chance. 
 
 196 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 8, Of the 
 
 Art of Conversation. 
 Change. 
 
 Change is inevitable in a progressive country. 
 Change is constant. 
 
 197 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 Speech at Conservative Banquet, Edin- 
 burgh, Oct. 29, 1867. 
 
 Such is the state of life that none are happy but 
 by the anticipation of change. The change itself 
 
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 is nothing : when we have made it the next wish 
 is to change acrain. 
 
 198 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 47. 
 
 Chapel. 
 
 For where God built a church, there the Devil 
 would also build a chapel. 
 
 199 Martin Luther : Table-Talk, Ixvii. 
 
 Chapter. 
 
 And so on to the end of the chapter. 
 
 200 Rabelais: Bk. v., Ch. 10. 
 
 Character. 
 
 Character is a fact, and that is much in a world 
 of pretence and concession. 
 
 201 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. III. 
 
 Pursuits. One^s Star. 
 
 Character must be kept bright, as well as clean. 
 
 202 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to His 
 
 Son. London, Jan. 8, 1750. 
 
 Character is higher than intellect. ... A great 
 soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. 
 
 203 Emerson : The American Scholar. 
 
 I'm called away by particular business, but I 
 leave my character behind me. 
 
 204 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 
 
 Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 Charity. 
 
 With malice toward none ; with charity for all ; 
 with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see 
 the right, let us strive on to finish the work we 
 are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ; to care for 
 him who shall have borne the battle, and for his 
 widow, and his orphan — to do all which may 
 
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 achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among 
 ourselves, and with all nations. 
 
 205 Lincoln: Second Inaug. Address, 1865. 
 
 Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 
 
 206 New Testament: 1 Peter iv. 8. 
 
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
 angels, and have not charity, I am become as 
 sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 
 
 207 New Testament: 1 Corinthians xiii. 1. 
 
 Chastity. 
 
 The very ice of chastity is in them. 
 
 208 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Cheating. 
 
 It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by 
 any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not 
 to be at the same time. 
 
 209 Emerson : Essays. Compensation. 
 
 Cheerfulness. 
 
 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. 
 
 210 Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 13. 
 Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all 
 
 the paths of life. 
 
 211 Richter: Lavana. Fourth Fragment, 
 
 Ch. 4, Sec. 97. (A. H., Translator.) 
 
 Childhood. 
 
 A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe man- 
 hood. 
 
 212 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. Nurture. 
 
 Childhood has no forebodings ; but then it is 
 soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. 
 
 213 George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss. 
 
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 Children. 
 
 Children sweeten labors, but they make misfor- 
 tunes more bitter ; they increase the eares of life, 
 but they mitigate the remembrance of death . 
 
 214 Bacon: Essays. Of Parents and Children, 
 
 Ah, there are no monger any children ! 
 
 215 Moli re: Le Malade Imaginaire, 
 
 Act iii., Sc. 11. 
 
 Chivalry. 
 
 But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophis- 
 ters, economists, and calculators has succeeded. 
 
 216 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in 
 
 France, vol. iii., p. 331. 
 
 Choice. 
 
 God offers to every man his choice between 
 truth and repose. 
 
 217 Emerson : Essays. Intellect. 
 
 Where there is no choice, we do well to make 
 no difficulty. 
 
 218 George MacDonald: Sir Gibbie, Ch. 11. 
 
 Christianity. 
 
 Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood 
 represented to us by Jesus Christ. 
 
 219 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Puljnt. 
 
 Christianity is the bringing of God to man, and 
 of man to God. 
 
 220 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. V. The 
 
 SouVs Refuge in God. 
 
 Christians. 
 
 Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or 
 Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and 
 
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 that their differences are trivial, and rather politi- 
 cal than religious. 
 
 221 Dr. Johnson : BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. ii., Ch. 5. 1763. 
 Whatever makes men good Christians makes 
 them good citizens. 
 
 222 Daniel Webster: Discourse, Plymouth, 
 
 Dec. 22, 1820. 
 Christmas. 
 
 And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, 
 or we all should. We all come home, or ought to 
 come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the 
 better — from the great boarding-school, where 
 we are for ever working at our arithmetical slates, 
 to take, and give a rest. 
 
 223 Dickens : Christmas Stories. 
 
 Church. 
 
 I recognize in the church an institution thorough- 
 ly, sincerely catholic, adapted to all climes and to 
 all ages. 
 
 224 Disraeli {Earl of BeaconsfielcT) : Sybil. 
 
 To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of 
 which the rewards are distant, and which is ani- 
 mated only by faith and hope, will glide by de- 
 grees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and 
 reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls 
 to worship, and the salutary influence of example. 
 
 225 Dr. Johnson: Life of Milton. 
 
 Circumlocution. 
 
 Whatever was required to be done, the Circum- 
 locution Office was beforehand with all the public 
 departments in the art of perceiving how not to 
 do it. 
 
 226 Dickens: Little Dorrit, Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 
 
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 Circumstances. 
 
 Circumstances alter cases. 
 
 227 Thomas C. Haliburton (" Sam 
 
 Slick ") : The Old Judge, Ch. 15. 
 
 Circumstances do not make a man weak, "but 
 they show what mann r of man he is. 
 
 228 Thomas a Kempis : Be Imiiatione 
 
 Christi, i., 16, 4. 
 Cities. 
 
 If cities were built by the sound of music, then 
 some edifices would appear to be constructed by 
 grave, solemn tones ; others to have danced forth 
 to light, fantastic airs. 
 
 229 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 
 
 Civilization. 
 
 What is civilization ? I answer, the power of 
 good women. 
 
 230 Emerson : Miscellanies. Woman. 
 Civilization obeys the same law as the ocean ; it 
 
 has its ebb and its flow, and where it advances on 
 one shore it recedes on the other. 
 
 231 Lord Lytton: Speeches. XIV. Beeds 
 
 Mechanics' Institution, Jan. 25, 1854. 
 Cleanliness. 
 
 Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed 
 from a due reverence to God. 
 
 232 Bacon: Advancement oj * Beaming, Bk. ii. 
 
 Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. " Cleanliness 
 is indeed next to godliness. " 
 
 233 John Wesley : Sermon xcii. On Bress. 
 
 Cleverness. 
 
 Cleverness is serviceable for everything, suffi- 
 cient for nothing. 
 
 234 Amiel: Journal, Feb. 16, 1868. 
 
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 Clouds. 
 
 Thus we play the fools with the time, and the 
 spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. 
 285 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Cobwebs. 
 
 I can look sharp as well as another, and let me 
 alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. 
 
 236 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 
 
 Coin. 
 
 Silver and gold are not the only coin ; virtue too 
 passes current all over the world. 
 
 237 Euripides: (Edipus. Frag. 546. 
 
 Color. 
 
 Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is 
 the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. 
 
 238 Ruskin : Stones of Venice. Sea Stories. 
 
 Comfort. 
 
 Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort it 
 will never obtain by making it an object. 
 
 239 E. P. Whipple: Literature and Life. 
 
 Intellectual Health and Disease. 
 Companionship. 
 
 They are never alone that are accompanied with 
 noble thoughts. 
 
 240 Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia, Bk. i. 
 
 Company. 
 
 To keep good company, especially at our first 
 setting out, is the way to receive good impressions. 
 
 241 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 
 
 Comparison. 
 
 Comparisons made between wit and wit, cour- 
 age and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and 
 birth, are always odious and ill taken. 
 
 242 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii.,Ch. 1. 
 
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 Comparisons are odorous. 
 
 243 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Se. 5. 
 
 Compass. 
 
 There are no points of the compass on the chart, 
 of true patriotism. 
 
 244 Robert C. Winthkop: Letter to Bos- 
 
 ton Commercial Club in 1879. 
 Compatriots. 
 
 Not because Socrates said so, ... I look upon 
 all men as my compatriots. 
 
 245 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 9. Of Vanity. 
 
 Compensation, 
 
 There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satis- 
 faction for every soul. 
 
 246 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Competency. 
 
 Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but 
 competency lives longer. 
 
 247 Shaks. : M. oj Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Compliments. 
 
 Compliments are in their place only where there 
 is full as much of weakness as of merit. 
 
 248 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham. 
 
 Conceit. 
 
 Conceit is the most incurable disease that is 
 known to the human soul. 
 
 249 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pnljnt. 
 
 Wiser in his own conceit than seyen men that 
 can render a reason. 
 
 250 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 16. 
 
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 Conclusion, 
 
 Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion ! 
 
 251 Siiaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Condition. 
 
 It is a condition which confronts us — not a 
 theory. 
 
 252 Groyer Cleveland : An. Message, 1887. 
 
 Conference. 
 
 Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready 
 man, and writing an exact man. 
 
 253 Bacon : Essays. Of Studies. 
 
 Confidence. 
 
 Trust men, and they will be true to you ; treat 
 them greatly, and they will show themselves great. 
 
 254 Emerson: Essays. Prudence. 
 
 Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged 
 bosom. 
 
 255 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 
 
 Speech, Jan. 14, 1766, 
 Conflict. 
 
 It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing 
 and enduring forces. 
 
 256 William H. Seward: Speech. Oct. 25,1858. 
 
 Conscience. 
 
 The conscience is the most elastic material in 
 the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a 
 mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. 
 
 257 Bulwer-Lytton : Ernest Maltravers, 
 
 Bk. i., Ch. 7. 
 
 Trust that man in nothing who has not a con- 
 science in everything. 
 
 258 Laurence Sterxe : Sermon xxvii. 
 
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 Consecration. 
 
 Consecration is going out into the world where 
 God Almighty is, and using every power for his 
 glory. 
 
 259 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 
 
 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — 
 we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this 
 ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 
 struggled here, have consecrated it far above our 
 poor power to add or detract. The world will 
 little note nor long remember what we say here, 
 but it can never forget what they did here. 
 
 260 Lincoln: Speech at Gettysburg, 1863. 
 
 Consistency. 
 
 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little 
 minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers 
 and divines. 
 
 261 Emerson*. Essays, Self -Reliance. 
 
 Constancy. 
 
 I would have men of such constancy put to sea, 
 that their business might be everything, and their 
 intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes 
 a good voyage of nothing. 
 
 262 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Contempt. 
 
 Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never 
 is ; our pride remembers it forever, 
 
 263 Lord Chesterfield: Advice, to His 
 
 Son. Knowledge oj the World. 
 Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it 
 seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the 
 rest by degrees. 
 
 264 Dr. Johnson: Works. VIII. 47. 
 
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 Contentment. 
 
 Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, 
 but in taking away some lire ; not in multiplying 
 of wealth, but in subtracting men's desires. 
 
 265 Thomas Fuller : The Holy and Profane 
 
 States. The Holy State. Of Contentment. 
 
 Conversation. 
 
 Conversation is the music of the mind, an in- 
 tellectual orchestra, where all the instruments 
 should bear a part, but where none should play 
 together. 
 
 266 Colton: Lacon. 
 
 When you are in company, talk often, but never 
 long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least 
 you are sure not to tire your hearers. 
 
 267 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 
 
 Bides for Conversation. 
 Co-operation. 
 
 We are born for co-operation, like the feet, the 
 hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. 
 
 268 Marcus Aurelius : Quod sibi ipsi, ii., 1. 
 
 Corporations. 
 
 They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, 
 nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. 
 
 269 Sir Edward Coke : Case of Sutton s 
 
 Hospital, x. Rep. 32. 
 
 No government has the moral right to invest a 
 company of men with powers which enable them 
 to coin money out of the needs of the people, and 
 which practically doom the people to suffering or 
 to unquestioning acquiescence in their exactions. 
 
 270 George C. Lorimer : Christianity in the 
 Nineteenth Century. The Church and Society. 
 
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 Counsel. 
 
 Who cannot give good counsel ? Tis cheap, it 
 costs them nothing. 
 
 271 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy > Pt. ii. 
 
 Country. 
 
 Indeed. I tremble for my country when I reflect 
 that God is just. 
 
 272 Thomas Jefferson : Xotcs on Virginia. 
 
 Let our object be our country, our whole coun- 
 try, and nothing but our country. 
 
 273 Daniel Webster : Address on Laying the 
 
 Corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument. 
 
 Courage. 
 
 Courage, considered in itself or without refer- 
 ence to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no es- 
 teem. It is found in the best and the worst, and 
 is to be judged according to the qualities from 
 which it springs and with which it is conjoined. 
 
 27l William Ellery Channing : 
 
 Discourse, 1835. War. 
 
 To bear other people's afflictions, every one has 
 courage enough and to spare. 
 
 275 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Courtesy. 
 
 Life is not so short but that there is always time 
 enough for courtesy. 
 
 276 Emerson: Litters and Social Aims. 
 
 Covetousness. 
 
 Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude 
 and anxiety. 
 
 277 Benjamin Franklin : On True Happi- 
 
 ness, Penn. Gazette, Nov. 20, 1735. 
 
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 Cowardice. 
 
 He who fears to venture as far as his heart 
 urges and his reason permits, is a coward ; he who 
 ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. 
 
 278 Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 
 
 There is nothing but roguery to be found in 
 villanous men. Yet a coward is worse than a cup 
 of sack with lime in it : a villanous coward. A 
 plague of all cowards, I say still. 
 
 279 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Cradle. 
 
 Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle 
 stands in the grave. 
 
 280 Bishop Hall: Epistles, Dec. iii., Ep. 2. 
 
 Creation, 
 
 Creation is great, and cannot be understood. 
 
 281 Carlyle : Essays. Characteristics. 
 
 Creeds. 
 
 Call your opinions your creed, and you will 
 change it every week. Make your creed simply 
 and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you 
 may keep it to the end. 
 
 282 Phillips Brooks : 
 Sermons. Keeping the Faith. 
 
 Crime. 
 
 If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense 
 is the father. 
 
 283 LaBruy^re: Characters. Of Man. 
 
 Criticism. 
 
 Men of great talents, whether poets or histo- 
 rians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, with- 
 out ever favoring the world with any production 
 
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 of their own, take delight in criticising the works 
 of others. 
 
 284 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 3. 
 
 (Jarvis, Translator}. 
 
 Blown about with every wind of criticism. 
 
 285 Dn. Johnson : BoswelTs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. viii., Ch. 10. 1784. 
 Critics. 
 
 You know who the critics are ? The men who 
 have failed in literature and art. 
 
 286 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Lothair, Ch. 35. 
 
 A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and 
 thus become his best encourager. 
 
 287 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 6. 
 
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . 
 Cromwell. 
 
 It has often been affirmed, but apparently with 
 little reason, that Oliver died at a time fortu- 
 nate for his renown, and that, if his life had been 
 prolonged, it would probably have closed amidst 
 disgraces and disasters. It is certain that he was, 
 to the last, honored by his soldiers, obeyed by the 
 whole population of the British islands, and 
 dreaded by all foreign powers, that he was laid 
 among the ancient sovereigns of England with 
 funeral pomp such as London had never before 
 seen, and that he was succeeded by his son Rich- 
 ard as quietly as any king had ever been succeeded 
 by any prince of Wales. 
 
 288 Macaulay: Hist, of England, Vol. i., Ch. 1. 
 
 Cruelty. 
 
 Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the 
 greatest of all ; if we consider it as a madness, we 
 
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 are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest 
 and the surest means of suppression. 
 
 289 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Arisloleles and Callislhenes. 
 Crystallization. 
 
 With the average man there comes a time when 
 his mind crystallizes and his beliefs become ab- 
 solutely fixed. He may not resent the discoveries 
 of younger men ; he certainly will not assimilate 
 them. He may not oppose new methods of action ; 
 he certainly will not adopt them. 
 
 290 Dr. John Watson (<« Ian Maclaren 11 ) : 
 
 Church Folks. 
 Cucumbers. 
 
 He had been eight years upon a project for ex- 
 tracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were 
 to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out 
 to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. 
 
 291 Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Pt. iii., Ch. 5. 
 
 Cultivation. 
 
 Cultivation has its balances. 
 
 292 Lew Wallace : Ben Bur, Bk. vi., Ch. 2. 
 
 Culture. 
 
 Culture is then properly described not as having 
 its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in 
 the love of perfection : it is a study of perfection. 
 
 293 Matthew Arnold • Culture and 
 Anarchy, Ch. 1. Sweetness and Light. 
 
 The foundation of culture, as of character, is at 
 last the moral sentiment. 
 
 294: Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Progress of Culture. 
 
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 Curiosity. 
 
 Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious 
 attention to little objects, which neither require nor 
 deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who 
 thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of 
 greater matters. 
 
 295 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 
 
 Curtain. 
 
 Let down the curtain : the farce is done. 
 
 296 Rabelais : Motteux's Life. 
 
 Custom. 
 
 Custom reconciles to everything. 
 
 297 Burke : On the Sublime and Beautiful, 
 
 Pt. iv., Sec. 18. 
 Nothing is stronger than custom. 
 
 298 Ovid: The Art of Love, ii., 345. 
 
 We are more sensible of what is done against 
 custom than against Nature. 
 
 299 Plutarch: Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1. 
 
 Cynics. 
 
 The cynic is one who never sees a good quality 
 in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is 
 the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to 
 light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble 
 game. Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 300 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dabbling. 
 
 I had dabbled a little in Universal History. 
 
 301 Charles Lamb : My First Play. 
 In matters of science he [Jefferson] was rather 
 
 a dabbler than a philosopher. 
 
 302 Theodore Parker : Historic Americans. 
 
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 Daggers. 
 
 As you have spoke daggers to hirn you may 
 justly dread the use of them against your own 
 breast. 
 
 303 Junius : Letter xxvi. 
 
 Daintiness. 
 
 The people, saith Malmsbury, learnt of the 
 outlandish Saxon rudeness, of the Flemish dainti- 
 ness and softness. 
 
 304 Milton: History of England, Ch. 5. 
 
 Dandyism. 
 
 Dandyism as yet affects to look down on Drudg- 
 ism ; but perhaps the hour of trial, when it will 
 be practically seen which ought to look down and 
 which up, is not so distant. 
 
 305 Carlyle : Sartor Besartus. 
 
 Danger. 
 
 Danger for danger's sake is senseless. 
 
 306 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Steeple- 
 
 Chasing. 
 Darkness. 
 
 There is such a thing as the pressure of dark- 
 ness. 
 
 307 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 
 
 Pt. ii., Bk. ii., Ch. 5. 
 
 Darkness which may be felt. 
 
 308 Old Testament: Exodus^. 21. 
 
 There is no darkness but ignorance. 
 
 309 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iv., So. 2. 
 
 Darling. 
 
 It is better to be an old man's derling than a 
 yong man's werling. 
 
 310 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 7. 
 
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 Daubery. 
 
 She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, 
 and such daubery as this is. 
 
 311 Shaks. : Mcr. W. of W., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Dauntlessness. 
 
 She visited every part of the works in person, 
 cheering her defenders by her presence and 
 dauntless resolution. 
 
 312 William H. Prescott: 
 Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. i., Ch. 2. 
 
 Dawn. 
 
 There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-think- 
 ing creature, as that of dawn. 
 
 313 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. Preface. 
 
 Day. 
 
 A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 
 
 314 Old Testament: Psalm lxxxiv. 10. 
 
 The day, when the longest, steals imperceptibly 
 away. 1 
 
 315 Pliny the Younger : Letters. Bk. ix, 
 
 Letter xxxvi. 
 Death. 
 
 Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it 
 with favor ; for even, death is one of the things 
 that Nature wills. 
 
 316 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ix., 3. 
 
 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. 
 
 317 Bacon: Essays. Of Death. 
 Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. 
 
 The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor 
 can we triumph over them. 
 
 318 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 404. 
 
 1 This is usually rendered, " The longest day soon comes to 
 an end." 
 
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 Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, 
 and she hides it well. 
 
 319 Alexander Smith: 
 Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. 
 
 Debasement. 
 
 A state of continual dependence on the generosity 
 of others is a life of gradual debasement. 
 
 320 Goldsmith : Citizen of the World. 
 
 Debate. 
 
 The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. 
 
 321 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsjield) : Speech. 
 
 Debt. 
 
 Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth 
 them. 
 
 322 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Small debts are like small shot ; they are rat- 
 tling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped 
 without a wound : great debts are like cannon ; of 
 loud noise, but little danger. 
 
 323 Dr. Johnson : Letter to Jos. Simpson, Esq. 
 
 The gentleman has not seen how to reply to 
 this, otherwise than by supposing me to have ad- 
 vanced the doctrine that a national debt is a 
 national blessing. 
 
 324 Daniel Webster: Speech in U. S. Senate. 
 
 Decay. 
 
 Man passes away ; his name perishes from 
 record and recollection ; his history is as a tale 
 that is told, and his very monument becomes a 
 ruin . 
 
 325 Washington Irving: 
 The Shetch-Book. Westminster Abbey. 
 
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 Deceit. 
 
 There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has 
 once begotten. 
 
 326 George Eliot: Romola, Ch. 58. 
 
 Decision. 
 
 The power of uncontrollable decision is of the 
 most delicate and dangerous nature. 
 
 327 James A. Bayard : Speech, Feb. 19, 1802. 
 A good decision is based on knowledge and not 
 
 on numbers. 
 
 328 Plato: Laches, ix. (Stephens, p. 184, e). 
 
 Deeds. 
 
 A man makes no noise over a good deed, but 
 passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes 
 again in season. 
 
 329 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, v., 6. 
 We will take the good will for the deed. 
 
 330 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iv., Ch. 49. 
 
 Deformity. 
 
 He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, 
 and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in 
 the streets mimicked. 
 
 331 Macaulay: On Moore s 
 Life of Lord Byron. 1830. 
 
 Degree. 
 
 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men 
 of high decree are a lie : to be laid in the balance 
 they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
 
 332 Old Testament : Psalm lxii. 9. 
 
 Delay. 
 
 He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall 
 scarce overtake his business at night. 
 
 333 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
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 Delight. 
 
 A sip is the most that mortals are permitted 
 from any goblet of delight. 
 
 334 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. Habits. 
 The last excessive feelings of delight are always 
 
 grave. Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Song of the 
 
 335 Nightingale. 
 
 Deluge. 
 
 After me the deluge. 
 
 336 Mme. De Pompadour: 3 Notes and 
 
 Queries, 397. 
 Democracy. 
 
 Democracy is the healthful life-blood which cir- 
 culates through the veins and arteries, which sup- 
 ports the system, but which ought never to appear 
 externally, and as the mere blood itself. 
 
 337 Coleridge: Table Talk, Sept. 19, 1830. 
 
 To one that advised him [Lycurgus] to set up a 
 democracy in Sparta, " Pray," said Lycurgus, " do 
 you first set up a democracy in your own house." 
 
 338 Plutarch : Apophthegms of Kings and 
 
 Great Commanders. Lycurgus. 
 Demonstration. 
 
 Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to 
 demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grate- 
 ful mind. 
 
 339 Epictetus: Discourses, Ch. 16. 
 
 Desert. 
 
 The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 
 
 340 Old Testament : Isaiah xxxv. 1. 
 
 Desire. 
 
 It is not wishing and desiring to be saved will 
 bring men to heaven : hell's mouth is full of good 
 wishes. 
 
 341 Thomas Shepard: The Sincere Convert. 
 
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 Desolation. 
 
 Lord ! how sad a sight it is to see the streets 
 empty of people, and very few upon the 'Change. 
 Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest 
 it should be the plague ; and about us two shops in 
 three, if not more, generally shut up. 
 
 342 Pepys: Diary, Aug. 16, 1665. 
 
 Despair. 
 
 There is no despair so absolute as that which 
 comes with the first moments of our first great 
 sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to 
 have suffered and be healed, to have despaired 
 and have recovered hope. 
 
 843 George Eliot: Adam Becle, Ch. 31. 
 
 Despatch. 
 
 Despatch is the soul of business. 
 
 344 Earl of Chesterfield : Letter, 
 
 Feb. 5, 1750. 
 Despotism. 
 
 Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the 
 effigy and ensigns of Freedom. 
 
 345 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 General Lacy and Cur a Merino. 
 Destiny. 
 
 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. 
 
 346 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. L, Ch. 3. 
 
 According to fates and destinies, and such odd 
 sayings, the sisters three, and such branches of 
 learning. 
 
 347 • Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Alas ! we are the sport of destiny. 
 
 348 Thackeray : Barry Lyndon, Ch. 3. 
 
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 Destruction. 
 
 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty 
 spirit before a fall. 
 
 349 Old Testament ; Proverbs xvi. 18. 
 
 Devil. 
 
 If the Devil takes a less hateful shape to us than 
 to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them. 
 
 350 Lowell : Among My Books. New Eng- 
 
 land Two Centuries Ago. 
 
 Needs must when the Devil drives. 
 
 351 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iv., Ch. 57. 
 No man means evil but the Devil, and we shall 
 
 know him by his horns. 
 
 352 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Devotion. 
 
 Some persons are so devotional they have not 
 one bit of true religion in them. 
 
 353 B. K. Haydox: Table Talk. 
 
 Dialogues. 
 
 Dialogues of the unborn, like dialogues of the 
 dead, or between two young children. 
 
 354 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1839. 
 
 Dictionaries. 
 
 Dictionaries are like watches ; the worst is better 
 than none, and the best cannot be expected to go 
 quite true. 
 
 355 Dr. Johnson: Johnsoniana, Piozzi, 178. 
 
 Difference. 
 
 You must* wear your rue with a difference. 
 There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, 
 but they withered. 
 
 356 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
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 Difficulties. 
 
 There is such a choice of difficulties that I am 
 myself at a loss how to determine. 
 
 357 James Wolfe: Desp. to Pitt, Sept. 2, 1759. 
 
 Dignity. 
 
 Remember this, — that there is a proper dignity 
 and proportion to be observed in the performance 
 of every act of life. 
 
 358 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iv. 32. 
 
 A certain dignity of manners is absolutely neces- 
 sary to make eyen the most valuable character 
 either respected or respectable in the world. 
 
 359 Lord Chesterfield: Advice to his Son. 
 
 Diligence. 
 
 Dilio-ence is the mother of good fortune. 
 
 360 Cert antes : Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 
 Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God 
 
 giyes all things to industry. 
 
 361 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Pilchard's Ah 
 
 Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory 
 man wrestles with losses. 
 
 362 Hesiod: Works and Days. Line 412. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than 
 a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 
 
 363 Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 17. 
 
 My wife had got ready a very fine dinner — 
 viz.: a dish of marrow-bones; a leg of mutton: 
 a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl ; three pullets and 
 two dozen of larks all in a dish ; a great tart, a 
 neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of 
 prawns and cheese. 
 
 364 Pepys: Diary, Jan. 26. 1660. 
 
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 Diplomacy. 
 
 Diplomacy is no shoemaker s stool on which one 
 can sit, stretch a knee-strap, and put a patch on a 
 hole ; diplomacy is not a craft which can be learnt 
 by years and developed by rote on a roller. Di- 
 plomacy is an art. 
 
 365 Bismarck: 
 Conversations with Prince Bismarck, p. 124. 
 Collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. Edited 
 by Sidney Whitman. 
 
 Disappointment. 
 
 Disappointment is often the salt of life. 
 
 366 Theodore Parker: 
 
 Miscellaneous Discourses . 
 
 ' Tis a bitter disappointment, when you have 
 sown benefits, to reap a crop of injuries. 
 
 367 Plautus: Epidicus, Act v., Sc. 2, 53. 
 
 Discipline. 
 
 A disciplinarian has affixed to him commonly 
 the ideas of cruelty, severity, tyranny, etc. But 
 if I were an officer, I am convinced I should be 
 the most decisive disciplinarian in the army. I 
 am convinced there is no other effective way of in- 
 dulging; benevolence, humanity, and the tender 
 social passions in an army. 
 
 368 John Adams : 
 
 Letters Addressed to His Wife.- Letter cxxxiv. 
 
 << The old girl," says Mr. Bagnet in reply, " is 
 a thoroughly fine woman. Consequently she is 
 like a thoroughly fine day. Gets finer as she gets 
 on. I never saw the old girl's equal. But I never 
 own to it before her. Discipline must be main- 
 tained." 
 
 369 Dickens: Bleak House, Ch. 27. 
 
52 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Discontent. 
 
 Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is 
 infirmity of will. 
 
 370 Emerson: Essays. Self -Reliance. 
 
 Discord. 
 
 When factions are carried too high and too 
 violently, it is a sign of weakness in princes, and 
 much to the prejudice both of their authority and 
 business. 
 
 371 Bacon: Essays. Of Faction. 
 
 Discouragement. 
 
 Nothing resembles pride so much as discourage- 
 ment. 
 
 372 Amiel: Journal, Bee. 30, 1850. 
 
 Discourse. 
 
 It is good in discourse, and speech of conversa- 
 tion, to vary, and intermingle speech of the pres- 
 ent occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; 
 asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and 
 jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire ; 
 and as we say now, to jade anything too far. 
 
 373 Bacon: Essays. Of Discourse. 
 
 Themistocles said that a man's discourse was 
 like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures 
 and patterns gf which can be shown only by 
 spreading and extending it out ; when it is con- 
 tracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. 
 
 374 Plutarch: Life of Themistocles. 
 
 Good company and good discourse are the very 
 sinews of virtue. 
 
 375 Izaak Walton: 
 The Complete Angler, Pt. L, Ch. 2. 
 
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 Discoveries. 
 
 All great discoveries are made by men whose 
 feelings run ahead of their thinkings. 
 
 376 Charles H. Parkhurst: 
 Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth. 
 
 Discretion. 
 
 Let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the 
 action to the word, the word to the action - 
 
 377 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 The better part of valor is discretion. 
 
 378 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Disease. 
 
 The remedy is worse than the disease. 
 
 379 Bacon : Essays. Of Seditions. 
 
 [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate 
 our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them 
 up like old apples, make them so many anato- 
 mies. 
 
 380 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , 
 
 Pt. i., Sec. ii., Memb. 3, Subs. 10. 
 
 Disinterestedness. 
 
 How difficult it is to get men to believe that any 
 other man can or does act from disinterestedness ! 
 
 381 B. R. Haydon : Table Talk. 
 Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays 
 
 all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. 
 
 382 La Rochefoucauld: Maxi?no9. 
 
 Disloyalty. 
 
 The silence of a friend commonly amounts to 
 treachery. His not daring to say anything in our 
 behalf implies a tacit censure. 
 
 383 Hazlitt : Characteristics. Xo. 15 
 
54 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 A man's disposition is never well known till he 
 be crossed. 
 
 384 Bacon: Advancement of Learning , Bk. ii. 
 
 Disputation. 
 
 The itch of disputing will prove the scab of 
 
 churches. Sir Henry Wotton : 
 
 385 A Panegyric to King Charles. 
 
 Disrespect. 
 
 No one minds what Jeffreys says : ... it Is not 
 more than a week ago that I heard him speak dis- 
 respectfully of the equator. 
 
 386 Sydney Smith : Lady Holland's Memoir. 
 
 Distance. 
 
 Distance sometimes endears friendship, and 
 absence sweeteneth it. 
 
 387 James Howell: Familiar Letters, Bk. i. 
 
 Distinction. 
 
 Distinction without a difference. 
 
 388 Fielding: Tom Jones, Bk. vi., Ch. 13. 
 
 Distrust. 
 
 He that has lost his faith, what staff has he 
 left? Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 
 
 389 Omamenta Rationalia. 
 
 Divinity. 
 
 There is divinity in odd numbers, either in 
 nativity, chance, or death. 
 
 390 Shaks. : Mer. W. oj W., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Doctor. 
 
 After death, the doctor. 
 
 391 Herbert: Jacula Pmdentiim. 
 
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 Dog. 
 
 Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this 
 great thing ? 
 
 392 Old Testament: 2 Kings viii. 13. 
 
 Dogmatism. 
 
 The most unflinching sceptic of course believes 
 in the objections to knocking his head against a 
 post as implicitly as the most audacious dogmatist. 
 
 393 Leslie Stephen : English Thought, i., Sc. 57. 
 
 Dollar. 
 
 The Almighty Dollar, that great object of uni- 
 versal devotion throughout our land, seems to 
 have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. 
 
 394 Irving: The Creole Village. 
 
 Dome. 
 
 The dome of Agrippa, still glittering with 
 bronze, . . . told to the Mercian and Northum- 
 brian pilgrims some part of the story of that great 
 civilized world which had passed away. 
 
 395 Macaulay: Risf. of England, Vol. i., Ch. 1. 
 
 Domicil. 
 
 Let him have no culinary fire, no domicil ; let 
 him, when very hungr} r , go to the town for food. 
 
 396 Sir William Jones : Institute of ' Manu, xii. 
 
 Domination. 
 
 No human being can arbitrarily dominate over 
 another without grievous damage to his own nature. 
 
 397 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 21. 
 
 Doomsday. 
 
 They may serve for any theme, and never out 
 of date until Doomsday. 
 
 398 Sir Thomas Browne : Vulgar Errors. 
 
56 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Doubt. 
 
 When in doubt, win the trick. 
 
 399 Hoyle: Twenty-four Rules for 
 
 Learners, Bute 12. 
 Dowry. 
 
 Every rational creature has all nature for his 
 dowry and estate. 
 
 400 Emersox : Miscellanies. 
 
 Dragon. 
 
 Peggy O'Dovrd is indeed the same as ever ; . . . 
 a tyrant over her Michael : a dragon amongst all 
 the ladies of the regiment. 
 
 401 Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Ch. 43. 
 
 Drama. 
 
 The manhood of poetry is the drama. 
 
 402 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. 
 
 Dreaming. 
 
 A dream itself is but a shadow. 
 
 403 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii.. Sc. 2. 
 I have had a most rare vision. I have had a 
 
 dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream 
 it was. 
 
 404 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Dregs. 
 
 What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in 
 the fountain of my love ? 
 
 405 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress.. Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Dress. 
 
 Those who make their dress a principal part of 
 themselves, will, in general, become of no more 
 value than their dress. 
 
 406 Hazlitt : Political Essays. 
 
 On the Clerical Character 
 
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 I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed 
 whose dress no one observes. 
 
 407 Trollope: Thackeray, Ch. 9. 
 
 (English Men of Letters.) 
 Dribbling. 
 
 Small temptations allure bnt dribbling offenders. 
 
 408 Milton: Apology for Smectymnuus. 
 
 Drinking. 
 
 I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes 
 when I have no occasion. 
 
 409 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 
 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 
 
 the excess. 
 
 410 John Selden: Humility. 
 
 I have very poor and unhappy brains for drink- 
 ing ; I could wish courtesy would invent some 
 other custom of entertainment. 
 
 411 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Driving. 
 
 Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: 
 for he driveth furiously. 
 
 412 Old Testament : 2 Kings ix. 20. 
 
 Drunkenness. 
 
 He calls drunkenness an expression identical 
 with ruin. 
 
 413 Diogenes Laertius : Pythagoras, vi. 
 
 Drunkenness is nothing else than a voluntary 
 madness. Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 83. 
 
 414 (Thomas Lodge, Editor.) 
 
 Dulness. 
 
 He is not only dull himself, but the cause of 
 dulness in others. 
 
 415 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life, Ch. 5. 1784. 
 
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 Dust, 
 
 For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
 return. 
 
 416 Old Testament : Genesis iii. 19. 
 
 Duplicity. 
 
 I, I, I myself, sometimes, leaving the fear of 
 heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honor 
 in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and 
 to lurch. 
 
 417 Shaks. : Mer. W. of.W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Duty. 
 
 Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. 
 
 418 Mathilde Blind: George Eliot, Ch. 1. 
 
 (Famous Women Series.) 
 
 The sense of duty pursues us ever. 
 
 419 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. 
 
 Matthew Arnold? s Views on Conscience. 
 
 Duty, — the command of heaven, the eldest 
 voice of God. Charles Kingsley : 
 
 420 Sermons for the Times. Sermon xxii. 
 
 Let us have faith that right makes might; and 
 in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we un- 
 derstand it. 
 
 421 Lincoln : Address, N.Y. City, Feb. 21, 1859. 
 
 B. 
 
 Earnestness. 
 
 A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot 
 find, creates them. 
 
 422 William Ellery Channing : 
 
 Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 59 
 
 Earth. 
 
 Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a 
 hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 
 
 423 Douglas Jerrold : A Land of Plenty . 
 
 [Australia.] 
 Ease. 
 
 Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 
 
 424 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV, Actiii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Eating. 
 
 We must eat to live, not live to eat. 
 
 425 Fielding : The Miser, Act iii. 
 
 Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. 
 
 426 Rabelais: Works, Bk. i., Ch. 5. 
 
 They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as 
 they that starve with nothing. 
 
 427 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 2. 
 
 Ebony. 
 
 But our captain counts the image of God — nev- 
 ertheless his imao;e — cut in ebonv as if done in 
 ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the rep- 
 resentation of the King of Heaven. 
 
 428 Thomas Fuller : The Good Sea-Captain. 
 
 Eccentricity. 
 
 Eccentricity has alwavs abounded when and 
 where strength of character has abounded ; and 
 the amount of eccentricity in a society has been 
 proportional to the amount of genius, mental 
 vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so 
 few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief 
 dan o;er of the time. 
 
 429 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Ch. 3. 
 
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 Echo. 
 
 The shadow of a sound, — a voice without a 
 mouth, and words without a tongue. 
 
 430 Paul Chatfield, M.D. 
 {Horace Smith) : The Tin Trumpet. Echo. 
 
 Echo is the voice of a reflection in the mirror. 
 
 431 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. 
 
 Economy, 
 
 Without care and method, the largest fortune 
 will not, and with them almost the smallest will, 
 supply all necessary expenses. 
 
 432 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to His Son. 
 
 A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. 
 
 433 Emerson: English Traits. Aristocracy. 
 
 Economy comes too late when the coffers are 
 empty. 
 
 434 Seneca: Epistolae, i., 5. 
 
 Education. 
 
 What sculpture is to a block of marble, educa- 
 tion is to an human soul. 
 
 435 Addison: The Spectator. No. 215. 
 Education is an ornament to the fortunate, a 
 
 haven of refuge to the unfortunate. 
 
 436 Democritus : Ethica, Fragment. 183. 
 Education should be as broad as man. 
 
 437 Emerson : 
 Lectures and Biographical Sketches. 
 
 I call, therefore, a complete and generous edu- 
 cation, that which fits a man to perform justly, 
 skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both 
 private and public, of peace and war. 
 
 438 Milton : On Education, 
 
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 Egotism. 
 
 The pest of society is egotists. 
 
 439 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Culture. 
 
 Egotism in print is not so insufferable as in 
 close conversation. It is hard to escape from a 
 garrulous bore at your elbow, but you can drop a 
 paper or book instanter, or turn to a more promis- 
 ing page, or sink in peaceful slumber, narcotized 
 by the tedious narrative. 
 
 440 Kate Sanborn: 
 Abandoning An Adopted Farm, Ch. 2. 
 
 Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one 
 man's self-hood ; they do not always deem the 
 affinities elective. 
 
 441 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 10. 
 
 Walt Whitman. 
 Elegance. 
 
 I have missed the endearing elegance of female 
 friendship. 
 
 442 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 46. 
 
 Eloquence. 
 
 Eloquence shows the power and possibility of 
 man. 
 
 443 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Great eloquence we cannot get, except from 
 human genius. 
 
 444 Thomas Starr King : TJie While Hills. 
 
 L ake Winn ip iseogee . 
 
 True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in 
 speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor 
 and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in 
 vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in 
 every way, but they cannot compass it. It must 
 
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 consist in the man, in the subject, and in the oc- 
 casion. 
 
 445 Daniel Webster: 
 
 Discourse, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Aug. 2, 1826. 
 
 Emergencies. 
 
 It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies 
 that the native metal of a man is tested. 
 
 446 Lowell: My Study Windows. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, 1864. 
 Emotion. 
 
 Sentiment is intellectualized emotion — emotion 
 precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the 
 fancy. Lowell : Among My Books. 
 
 447 Rousseau and the Sentimentalists. 
 
 Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading; 
 on to thought or action, is the element of madness. 
 
 448 John Sterling : Essays and Tales. 
 Thoughts. Crystals from a Cavern. II. 
 
 Empire. 
 
 The empire is peace. 
 
 449 Louis Napoleon: Speech, Oct. 9, 1852. 
 
 Employment. 
 
 Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melan- 
 choly. 
 
 450 Dr. Johnson : BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. vi., Ch. 9. 1777. 
 
 The hand of little employment hath the daintier 
 sense. 
 
 451 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. 
 Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, 
 in a country like ours, general prosjjerity, content, 
 
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 and cheerfulness. Thus happy have we seen the 
 country. 
 
 452 Daniel Webster: 
 Speech, U. S. Senate, July 25-27, 1846. 
 
 End. 
 
 In everything one must consider the end. 
 
 453 La Fontaine : 
 
 The Fox and the Gnat. Fable 5. 
 Endurance. 
 
 My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but en- 
 during as marble to retain. 
 
 454 Cervantes : The Little Gypsy. 
 
 What cannot be cured must be endured. 
 
 455 Rabelais: Works, Bk. v., Ch. 15. 
 
 Enemies. 
 
 The enemy is within the gates ; it is with our 
 own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality 
 that we have to contend. 
 
 456 Cicero : In Catilinam, ii., 5, 11. 
 
 Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your 
 power, for he may afterwards become your friend. 
 
 457 Saadi: The Gulistan, Ch. 8. 
 
 Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 10. 
 
 If we could read the secret history of our ene- 
 mies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and 
 suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 
 
 458 Longeellow: Drift-Wood. Table Talk. 
 
 Energy. 
 
 Life is a species of energy, and each man ex- 
 pends his energy in and about those things which 
 chiefly delight him . 
 
 459 Aristotle: Elhica Nicomachea, x., 4, 10. 
 
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 England. 
 
 The Continent will not suffer England to be the 
 workshop of the Avorld. 
 
 460 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 Speech, House of Commons, March 15, 1838. 
 
 England expects every man to do his duty. 
 
 461 Horatio Kelson: 
 
 Southey's Life of Nelson, Vol. ii., p. 131. 
 
 Enough. 
 
 Enough is as good as a feast. 
 
 462 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 11. 
 
 Enterprise. 
 
 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence 
 of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and 
 heroic enterprise is gone. 
 
 463 Burke : Be flections on the Rev. in France. 
 
 Enthusiasm. 
 
 Enthusiasm is the height of man ; it is the pass- 
 in £ from the human to the divine. 
 
 464 Emerson : Lectures and Biographical 
 
 Sketches. The Superlative. 
 
 Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. 
 
 465 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iii., Ch. 6. 
 
 Envy. 
 
 From envy, hatred, and malice, and all un- 
 charitableness, Good Lord deliver us. 
 
 466 Book of Common Prayer: The Litany. 
 
 Envy feels not its own happiness but when it 
 may be compared with the misery of others. 
 
 467 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 9. 
 
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 Epitaphs. 
 
 Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; let 
 no man write my epitaph : no man can write my 
 epitaph. 
 
 468 Robert Emmet : 
 Speech on His Trial and Conviction for High 
 
 Treason, September, 1803. 
 
 After your death you were better have a bad 
 epitaph than their ill report while you lived. 
 
 469 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Equality. 
 
 We hold these truths to be self-evident : that all 
 men are created equal ; that they are endowed by 
 their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that 
 among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
 happiness. 
 
 470 Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 Declaration of Independence, 
 Equity. 
 
 Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a 
 measure, know what to trust to : equity is accord- 
 ing to the conscience of him that is chancellor, 
 and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 
 ,r Tis all one as if they should make the standard 
 for the measure we call a foot a chancellor^ foot ; 
 what an uncertain measure would this be ! One 
 chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a 
 third an indifferent foot. Tis the same in the 
 Chancellor's conscience. 
 
 471 John Shelden: Table Talk. Equity. 
 
 Equivocation. 
 
 How absolute the knave is ! Ave must speak by 
 the card, or equivocation will undo us. 
 
 472 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
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 Error. 
 
 Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. 
 
 473 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Bon. 
 
 All men are liable to error, and most men are, 
 in many points, by passion or interest, under 
 temptation to it. Locke : 
 
 474 Essay on the Human Understanding . 
 
 Esteem. 
 
 No man can have much kindness for him by 
 whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and 
 nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. 
 
 475 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. No. 99. 
 
 Eternity. 
 
 Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow 
 meaner and more hostile. 
 
 476 Carlyle: 
 Thomas Carlyle, by Froude. Vol. ii., Ch. 14. 
 
 44 Time restores all things. " Wrong! Time 
 restores many things, but eternity restores all. 
 
 477 Joseph Roux : 
 Meditations of a Parish Priest. 
 
 Ether. 
 
 << The earth loveth the shower, 1 ' and " the holy 
 ether knoweth what love is." 
 
 478 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations,*., 21. 
 
 Events. 
 
 Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God 
 pleases. 
 
 479 Cowper: Letters. To Lady Hesketh. 
 
 Two rules we should always have ready, — that 
 there is nothing good or evil save in the will ; and 
 that we are not to lead events, but to follow them. 
 
 480 Epictetus : 
 
 In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness. 
 
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 Evil. 
 
 The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so 
 imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is 
 unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his 
 sham eless nes s. 
 
 481 Cicero : In Yerrem, ii., 3, 76, 177. 
 
 There is evil in every human heart, which may 
 remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life ; 
 but circumstances may rouse it to activity. 
 
 482 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1863. 
 
 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide 
 things honest in the sight of all men. 
 
 483 New Testament: Romans xii. 17. 
 
 Evolution. 
 
 Evolution then, under its primary aspect, is a 
 change from a less coherent form to a more co- 
 herent form, consequent on the dissipation of 
 motion and integration of matter. This is the 
 universal process through which sensible exis- 
 tences, individually and as a whole, pass during 
 the ascending halves of their histories. 
 
 484 Herbert Spencer : Synthetic Philosophy . 
 
 First Principles. Ch. 14, Sec. 115. 
 
 Example. 
 
 Example is a school of mankind, and they will 
 learn at no other. 
 
 485 Burke : Letters on a Regicide Peace. 
 
 Letter i., 1796. 
 
 Example acquires tenfold authority when it 
 speaks from the grave. 
 
 486 Wendell Phillips : 
 
 The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement. 
 
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 Excess. 
 
 Too much of a good thing. 
 
 487 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 He does nothing who endeavors to do more than 
 is allowed to humanity. 
 
 488 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 29. 
 
 Exercise. 
 
 I take the true definition of exercise to be labor 
 without weariness. 
 
 489 Dr. Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. 
 
 IV. 151. Note 1. 
 Exile. 
 
 Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, 
 a circumscribed habitation ; but not to those who 
 look upon the whole globe but as one city. 
 
 490 Cicero : Paradoxes. II. 
 
 (Edmonds, Translator.') 
 
 Expectation. 
 
 They that marry ancient people, merely in ex- 
 pectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope 
 that one will come and cut the halter. 
 
 491 Thomas Fuller : Of Marriage. 
 
 Expediency. 
 
 Party honesty is party expediency. 
 
 492 Grover Cleveland : 
 
 Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser. 
 
 Experience. 
 
 " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will 
 learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, and 
 scarcely in that; for it is true, " We may give ad- 
 vice, but Ave cannot give conduct. 1 ' 
 
 493 Benjamin Franklin : The Way to Wealth, 
 
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 Experience makes us wise. 
 
 494 Hazlitt: Table Talk. Second Series. 
 
 On Novelty and Familiarity . 
 
 The only faith that wears well and holds its 
 color in all weathers, is that which is woven of 
 conviction and set with the sharp mordant of ex- 
 perience. 
 
 495 Lowell: My Study Windows. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, 1864. 
 
 Unless experience be a jewel ; that I have pur- 
 chased at an infinite rate. 
 
 496 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Experiment. 
 
 In the full tide of successful experiment. 
 
 497 Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural 
 
 Address, March 4, 1801. 
 Explanations. 
 
 It is not explanations which survive, but the 
 things which are explained; not theories, but the 
 things about which we theorize. 
 
 498 Kt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour: 
 
 The Foundations of Belief. 
 Eyes. 
 
 Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. 
 
 499 Carlyle : Reminiscences. 
 Jane Welsh Carlyle. (Froude, Editor.) 
 
 A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the 
 eyes. 
 
 500 George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss, 
 
 Bk. iv., Ch. 14. 
 
 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber 
 to mine eyelids. 
 
 oOl Old Testament: Psalm cxxxii. 4. 
 
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 Fable. 
 
 Among all the different ways of giving counsel, 
 I think the finest and that which pleases the most 
 universally is fable, in whatsoever shape it ap- 
 pears. 
 
 502 Addison: Spectator. No. 512. 
 
 Fabric. 
 
 I find there are many pieces in this one fabric of 
 man. 
 
 503 Sir Thomas Brown : Religio Medici, ii. 7. 
 
 Fabrication. 
 
 The very idea of the fabrication of a new gov- 
 ernment is enough to fill us with disgust and 
 horror. 
 
 504 Burke: Revolution in France. 
 
 Fabulous. 
 
 Howsoever, it is more than apparent that the 
 booke bearing Enoch's name is very fabulous. 
 
 505 Purchas: Pilgrimage. 
 
 Face. 
 
 God has given you one face, and you make 
 yourselves another. 
 
 506 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Facility. 
 
 Facility is worse than bribery ; for bribes come 
 but now and then ; but if importunity or idle 
 respects lead a man, he shall never be without. 
 
 507 Bacon: Essays. Of Great Place. 
 
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 Faction. 
 
 A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its 
 poison in the deliberations of all bodies, will often 
 hurry the persons of whom they are composed into 
 improprieties and excesses for which they would 
 blush in a private capacity. 
 
 508 A. Hamilton: The Federalist. No. 15. 
 
 Factors. 
 
 Factors in the trading world are what ambas- 
 sadors are in the politic world. 
 
 509 Addison: The Royal Exchange. 
 
 Facts. 
 
 Facts are stubborn things. 
 
 510 Elliot: Essays. Field Husbandry, 
 1747. Le Sage: Oil Bias, Bk. x., Ch. 1. 
 
 A world of facts lies outside and beyond the 
 world of words. 
 
 511 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 57. 
 
 Faculty. 
 
 Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments. 
 
 512 Marcus Aurelius : Meditations, iii., 9. 
 
 Fagots. 
 
 There are fagots and fagots. 
 
 513 Moliere : Le M&decin Malgre lui, 
 
 Act i., Sc. 6. 
 
 Failure. 
 
 To fail at all is to fail utterly. 
 
 514 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryden. 
 
 The weakest goes to the wall. 
 
 515 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 1 
 
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 Fairness. 
 
 I have let myself to another, even to the King 
 of Princes ; and how can I with fairness go back 
 with thee ? 
 
 516 Bunyan: Pilgrim ] s Progress. 
 
 Faith. 
 
 Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 
 
 517 William Ellery Channing: 
 
 Note-Book. Faith. 
 
 A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above 
 fear. 
 
 518 George MacDonald: Sir Gibbie, Ch. 11. 
 
 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 
 evidence of things not seen. 
 
 519 New Testament : Hebrews xi. 1. 
 
 It is always right that a man should be able to 
 render a reason for the faith that is within him. 
 
 520 Sydney Smith: Memoir, Vol. i., p. 53. 
 
 Faith is the force of life. 
 
 521 Tolstoi: My Confession, Ch. 11. 
 
 Falsehood. 
 
 Falsehood is cowardice. 
 
 522 Hosea Ballou: MS S. Sermons. 
 
 Falsehood is for a season. 
 
 523 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 William Penn and Lord Peterborough. 
 
 Falsehood imperils, not alone by its credit, but 
 also by its very discovery and exposure. If the 
 utmost danger attends the believing of lies, some 
 danger follows upon finding them out : to be de- 
 
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 ceived and to be undeceived may be both, though 
 not equally, injurious. 
 
 524 D. A. Wasson: The Dangers of Discovery. 
 
 Old and New, Vol. iv., p. 543. 
 
 Fame. 
 
 Fame, which is the opinion the world expresses 
 of any man's excellent endowments, is the idol to 
 which the finest spirits have in all ages burnt their 
 incense. 
 
 525 Sir Richard Blackmore : 
 
 The Lay Monastery. No. 11. 
 
 Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of 
 merit, but only a probability of such : it is an ac- 
 cident, not a property of a man. 
 
 526 Carlyle: Essays. Goethe. {Foreign 
 
 Review, 1828.) 
 
 The temple of fame stands upon the grave ; the 
 flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from 
 the ashes of dead men. 
 
 527 Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Poets. 
 
 Lecture viii. 
 
 If there be those who despise fame ; if of those 
 who covet it he who desires fame for one thing 
 despises it for another ; and if he who seeks fame 
 with one sort despises it with another ; why may 
 not I say that neither do I know how any fame can 
 be called a good ? 
 
 528 Shaftesbury : The Philosophic Regimen. 
 
 Good and 111, p. 54. 
 
 Familiarity. 
 
 He calleth you by your Christian name, to im- 
 ply that his other is the same with your own. He 
 is too familiar by half, yet you wish he had less 
 diffidence. With half the familiarity he might 
 
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 pass for a casual dependent ; with more boldness 
 he would be in no danger of being taken for what 
 he is. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 
 
 529 Poor Relations. 
 
 Family. 
 
 There were but two families in the world, Have- 
 much and Have-little. 
 
 530 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 20. 
 
 Famine. 
 
 Famine ends famine. 
 
 531 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries 
 
 Made upon Men and Matter. 
 Fancy. 
 
 His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature 
 under tribute, and has collected riches from every 
 scene of the creation and every walk of art. 
 
 532 Robert Hall: Apology for the Freedom 
 
 of the Press. 
 
 The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy 
 with beautiful images, but took no hold on the 
 heart. 
 
 533 Macaulay: Dante. 
 
 Fantasy. 
 
 Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is 
 mere fantasy, the image-making power common 
 to all who have the gift of dreams, or who can 
 afford to buy it in a vulgar drug, as De Quincey 
 bought it. Lowell : Among My Books. 
 
 534 Shakespeare Once More. 
 
 Farewell. 
 
 The happy never say, and never hear said, 
 
 farewell. Landor: Pericles and Asp asia. 
 
 535 CCXXXV. Pericles to Aspasia. 
 
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 Farming. 
 
 Each man reaps on his own farm. 
 
 536 Plautus: Mostellaria, Act iii., Sc. 2,112. 
 Let ns never forget that the cultivation of the 
 
 earth is the most important labor of man. 
 
 537 Daniel Webster : Speech, Boston, 
 Jan. 13, 1840. The Agriculture of England. 
 
 Fascination. 
 
 The gift of fascination, the power to charm when, 
 where, and whom she would. 
 
 538 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 9. 
 
 Fashion. 
 
 The fashion wears out more apparel than the 
 man. 
 
 539 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to 
 
 judge between the temporary and the lasting. 
 
 540 Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 2. 
 
 Fatalism. 
 
 Fatalism says that something must be ; and this 
 something cannot be modified by any modification 
 of the conditions. George Henry Lewes: 
 
 541 Problems of Life and Mind, Ch. 1. 
 
 Fate. 
 
 Fate is impenetrated causes. 
 
 542 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. 
 Lucky he who has been educated to bear his 
 
 fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example 
 of uprightness, aud a childish training in honor. 
 
 543 Thackeray: Pendennis, Ch. 41. 
 
 Fate is character. 
 
 544 William Winter : The Stage Life of 
 
 Mary Anderson. Pauline. 
 
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 Father. 
 
 A wise son maketh a glad father. 
 
 545 Old Testament: Proverbs -k. 1. 
 It is a wise father that knows his own child. 
 
 546 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2, 
 
 Fatness. 
 
 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked : thou art 
 waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered 
 with fatness. 
 
 547 Old Testament : Deuteronomy xxxii. 15. 
 
 Fat, fair, and forty. 
 
 548 Walter Scott : St. Ronatfs Well, Ch. 7. 
 There live not three good men unhanged in Eng- 
 land ; and one of them is fat and grows old. 
 
 549 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Faults. 
 
 The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be 
 conscious of none. 
 
 550 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Prophet. 
 All his faults are such that one loves him still 
 the better for them. 
 
 551 Goldsmith: The Oood-Natured Man, Act i. 
 
 Favors. 
 
 He only confers favors generously who appears, 
 when they are once conferred, to remember them 
 no more. 
 
 552 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 467. 
 
 (Oxford Edition, 1825.) 
 
 The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively 
 sense of future favors. 
 
 553 Sir Robert Walpole. 
 
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 Fear. 
 
 Men fear death as children fear to go in the 
 dark ; and as that natural fear in children is in- 
 creased with tales, so is the other. 
 
 554 Bacon : Essays of Death. 
 
 The concessions of the weak are the concessions 
 of fear. 
 
 555 Burke: Speech, March 22, 1775. 
 
 Conciliation with America. 
 
 Fear always springs from ignorance. 
 
 556 Emerson: Miscellanies. Am. Scholar. 
 There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth 
 
 out fear. 
 
 557 New Testament: lJohniv. 18. 
 
 Feast. 
 
 Enough is equal to a feast. 
 
 558 Fielding : The Convent Garden Tragedy, 
 
 Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 • Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry 
 feast. 
 
 559 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Features. 
 
 The human features and countenance, although 
 composed of but some ten parts or little more, are 
 so fashioned that among so many thousands of 
 men there are no two in existence who cannot be 
 distinguished from one another. 
 
 560 Pliny the Elder : Natural History, 
 
 Bk. vii., Sec. 8. 
 Feeling. 
 
 Feeling comes before reflection. 
 
 561 Hugh R. FLwveis : Speech in Season, 
 
 Bk. i. 
 
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 Fellow. 
 
 If he be not fellow with the best king, thon 
 shalt find the best king of good fellows. 
 
 dQ2 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Fellowship. 
 
 Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is 
 hell : fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is 
 death : and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it 
 is for fellowship's sake that ye do them. 
 
 563 William Morris : A Dream of John Ball. 
 
 Fiction. 
 
 The most influential books, and the truest in 
 their influence, are works of fiction. . . . They 
 repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of 
 life : they disengage us from ourselves, they con- 
 strain us to the acquaintance of others; and they 
 show us the web of experience, but with a singu- 
 lar change, — that monstrous, consuming ego of 
 ours being, nonce, struck out. 
 
 564 Robert Louis Stevenson: 
 Books Which Have Influenced Me. 
 
 Fields. 
 
 His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled 
 of green fields. 
 
 565 Shaks. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Finery. 
 
 Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, 
 has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved 
 their families. " Silks and satins, scarlets and 
 velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Eichard 
 says. 
 
 566 Benjamin Franklin: 
 
 The Way to Wealth. 
 
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 Fire. 
 
 The most tangible of all visible mysteries, — 
 
 fire. 
 
 567 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. 
 
 There can no great smoke arise, but there must 
 be some fire. 
 
 568 Lyly: Enphues and his Euphcebus, p. 153. 
 Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt 
 
 goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the 
 round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday 
 in AVheeson-week. 
 
 569 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Firmament. 
 
 The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the 
 firmament showeth his handiwork. 
 
 570 Old Testament: Psalm xix. 1. 
 
 Fishing. 
 
 I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a 
 rainy evening to read this following discourse ; 
 and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind 
 may never blow when he goes a fishing. 
 
 571 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler. 
 
 Author's Preface. 
 Flatterers. 
 
 It is better to fall amongst crows than amongst 
 flatterers ; for the former wait till we are dead, 
 the latter eat us alive. 
 
 572 Antisthenes. {Diogenes Laertius, 
 
 vi., 1, 4, 4.) 
 Flattery. 
 
 Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the 
 giver ; and adulation is not of more service to the 
 people than to kings. 
 
 573 Burke : Reflections on the Eev. in- France. 
 
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 Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. 
 
 574 Colton: Lacon. 
 It is easier and handier for men to flatter than 
 
 to praise. Bichter: Titan, Cycle 34. 
 
 575 (Brooks, Translator.) 
 Flesh. 
 
 The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is 
 weak. 
 
 576 New Testament: Matthew xxvi. 41. 
 I saw him now going the way of all flesh. 
 
 577 John Webster: 
 Westward Hoe, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Flirtation. 
 
 What we find the least of in flirtation is love. 
 
 578 La Rochefoucauld: 
 Beflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims. 
 
 Flowers. 
 
 And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter 
 in the air (where it comes and goes, like the war- 
 bling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing 
 is more fit for that delight than to know what be 
 the flowers and plants that do best perfume the 
 air. 
 
 579 Bacon : Essays. Of Gardens. 
 Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever 
 
 made and forgot to put a soul into. 
 
 580 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 
 
 The Amen ! of Nature is always a flower. 
 
 581 Holmes: 
 
 The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 10. 
 
 I have here only made a nosegay of culled 
 flowers, and have brought nothing of mine own 
 but the thread that ties them together. 
 
 582 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 12. 
 
 Of Physiognomy. 
 
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 There are crowds who trample a flower into the 
 dust without once thinking that they have one of 
 the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel. 
 
 583 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 
 Folly. 
 
 Who lives without folly is not so wise as he 
 thinks . 
 
 584 La Rochefoucauld : 
 Reflections ; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. 
 
 Answer a fool according to his folly. 
 
 585 Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 5. 
 
 Fools. 
 
 I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, 
 I'm poor enough to be a wit. 
 
 586 Congreve: Love for Love, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools 
 that have not wit enough to be honest. 
 
 587 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Young men think old men fools, and old men 
 know young men to be so. 
 
 588 Metcalf : Quoted by Camden. 
 Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. 
 
 589 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Forbearance. 
 
 There is, however, a limit at which forbearance 
 ceases to be a virtue. 
 
 590 Burke : Observations on a Late Publica- 
 
 tion on the Present State of the Nation. 
 Force. 
 
 The sole truth which transcends experience by 
 underlying it, is thus the Persistence of Force. 
 This being the basis of experience, must be the 
 
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 basis of any scientific organization of experiences. 
 To this an ultimate analysis brings us down ; and 
 on this a rational synthesis must build up. 
 
 591 Herbert Spencer : Synthetic Philosophy. 
 
 First Principles, Ch. 6, Sec. 62. 
 Foresight. 
 
 The first years of man must make provision for 
 the last. 
 
 592 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 17. 
 
 Foretelling. 
 
 A cunning mathematician, penetrating the cubic 
 weight of stars, predicts the planet which eyes 
 have never seen. 
 
 593 Emerson: Essays. Courage. 
 
 Forgetfulness. 
 
 There is no remembrance which time does not 
 obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. 
 
 594 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iii., 
 
 Ch. 15. (Jarvis, Translator .) 
 
 Oh, if, in being forgotten, w T e could only forget! 
 
 595 Lew Wallace: Ben Eur, Bk. iii., Ch. 3. 
 
 Forgiveness. 
 
 "Forgiveness," said Mr. Pecksniff, "entire 
 and pure forgiveness, is not incompatible with a 
 wounded heart; perchance when the heart is 
 wounded, it becomes a greater virtue. With my 
 breast still wrung and grieved to its inmost core 
 by the ingratitude of that person, I am proud and 
 glad to say, that I forgive him." 
 
 596 Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 2. 
 
 Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispens- 
 ably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, 
 superfluous to urge any other motive. On this 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 83 
 
 great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that 
 refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inac- 
 cessible, and the Saviour of the world has been 
 born in vain. 
 
 597 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. Xo. 185. 
 
 We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot 
 forgive those whom we bore. 
 
 598 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; 
 or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. jSTo. 30-1. 
 
 Formulas. 
 
 Formulas too, as we call them, have a reality 
 in Human Life. They are real as the very skin 
 and muscular tissue of a Man's Life ; and a most 
 blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have 
 vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to 
 him 
 
 599 Carlyue : Past and Present. Beginnings. 
 
 Fortitude. 
 
 Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, 
 friendship, and fidelity may be found. A man 
 may confide in persons constituted for noble ends, 
 who dare do and suffer, and who have a hand to 
 barn for their country and their friend. Small 
 and creeping things are the product of petty souls. 
 
 600 Sir Thomas Browne : Christian Morals. 
 
 Pt. i., Sec. 36. 
 Fortune. 
 
 Fortune makes him a fool, whom she makes her 
 darling. Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 
 
 601 Ornamenta Rationalia. 
 Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the 
 
 lineaments of nature. 
 
 602 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
84 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fortune has often been blamed for her blind- 
 ness ; but fortune is not so blind as men are. 
 
 603 Samuel Smiles : Self-Help, Ch. 3. 
 
 Fortune-telling. 
 
 We are simple men ; we do not know what's 
 brought to pass under the profession of Fortune- 
 telling. 
 
 604 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Foundation. 
 
 I cannot but think that the foundations of all 
 natural knowledge were laid when the reason of 
 man first came face to face with the facts of nature. 
 
 605 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 11. 
 
 Frailty. 
 
 It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 
 < < It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of 
 a man and the security of a god.'" 
 
 606 Bacon-: Essays. Of Adversity . 
 
 Frankness. 
 
 He that openly tells his friends all that he thinks 
 of them, must expect that they will secretly tell 
 his enemies much that they do not think of him. 
 
 607 Colton: Lacon. 
 
 Frederick of Prussia said with commendable 
 frankness that he always found the god of battles 
 on the side of the strongest regiments. 
 
 608 Charles Sumner : Orations, i., 53. 
 
 Fraternity. 
 
 The first aspect in which Christianity presented 
 itself to the world was as a declaration of the 
 fraternity of men in Christ. 
 
 609 Lecky: European Morals, Ch. 2. 
 
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 Fraud. 
 
 Whoever has even once become notorious by 
 base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no 
 belief. 
 
 610 Phaedrus: Bk. L, Fable 10, 1. 
 
 Freedom. 
 
 Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. 
 
 611 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 
 
 Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our 
 time. 
 
 612 Heine: English Fragments. 
 
 In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom 
 to the free — honorable alike in what we give and 
 what we preserve. 
 
 613 Abraham Lincoln : Conclusion, Second 
 
 Annual Message to Congress. 
 
 That this nation, under God, shall have a new 
 birth of freedom, and that government of the 
 people, by the people, for the people, shall not 
 perish from the earth. 
 
 614 Lincoln: Speech at Gettysburg, 1863. 
 The man is free who is protected from injury. 
 
 615 Daniel Webster: Speech, May 10, 
 
 1847. Dinner of Charlestown Bar. 
 Freemen 
 
 Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is 
 but half completed, while millions of freemen with 
 votes in their hands are left without education. 
 
 616 Robert C. Winthrop: Yorktoion, 1881. 
 
 Frenchmen. 
 
 A Frenchman must be always talking, whether 
 he knows anything of the matter or not. 
 
 617 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson. 
 
86 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fretfulness, 
 
 Fretfulness of temper, too, will generally char- 
 acterize those who are negligent of order. 
 
 618 H. Blair: Works, m, 1. 
 
 Friends. 
 
 For his friend is another self. 
 
 619 Aristotle : Ethics, Bk. ix., Ch. 5. 
 
 (Browne, Trans.} 
 
 If he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. 
 
 620 Bacon : Essays. Of Friendship. 
 
 The place where two friends first met is sacred 
 to them all through their friendship, all the more 
 sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. 
 
 621 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
 
 The Young and Old Christian. 
 
 A beloved friend does not fill one part of the 
 soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes con- 
 nected with all feeling. 
 
 622 William Ellery Channing : 
 
 Note-Book. Friendship. 
 
 Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 
 
 623 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not com- 
 parable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: 
 when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 
 
 624 Old Testament: Ecclesiasticusix., 10. 
 
 Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a 
 friend in need. 
 
 625 Plautus : Epidicus, Act iii., Sc. 3, 44. 
 Treat your friend as if he might become an 
 
 enemy. 
 
 626 Publius Syrus : Maxim 401. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 87 
 
 Choose a good, disagreeable friend, if you be 
 wise — a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. 
 • 627 Thackeray : Sketches and Travels in 
 
 London. On Friendship . 
 
 The most I can do for my friend is simply to be 
 his friend. Henry D. Thoreau : Winter. 
 
 628 Journal, Feb. 7, 1841. 
 
 Friendship. 
 
 Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives 
 ill under clouds. 
 
 629 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days. 
 
 June. Letters. 
 
 True friendship is like sound health, the value 
 of it is seldom known until it be lost. 
 
 680 Colton: Lacon. 
 
 One glory is reserved for literary friendship. 
 The friendship of a great name indicates the great- 
 ness of the character who appeals to it. 
 
 631 Isaac Disraeli: Literally Char., Ch. 19. 
 
 That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when 
 two friends, without speaking a word to each 
 other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being 
 together. 
 
 632 George Ebers : Homo Sum, Ch. 7. 
 
 (Clara Bell, Translator.} 
 
 Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, 
 or where the superiority on one side is reduced by 
 some equivalent advantage on the other. 
 
 633 Dr. Johnson : The Rambler. No. 64. 
 
 Fright. 
 
 You frighten me out of my seven senses ! 
 
 634 Savift : Polite Conversation. 
 
88 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Friskiness. 
 
 Lambs in the spring show ns that the friskiness 
 of one is a cause of friskiness in those near it — if 
 one leaps others leap. Herbert Spencer: 
 
 635 Principles of Psychology, Sec. 506. 
 
 Frolicsomeness. 
 
 All light and smiles, and frolicsome as the 
 young fawns. 
 
 636 Edgar Allan Poe : Tales, i. 
 
 Fruitfulness. 
 
 The flowers of life are but visionary. How 
 many pass away and leave no trace behind ! How 
 few yield any fruit, — and the fruit itself, how 
 rarely does it ripen ! And yet there are flowers 
 enough ; and is it not strange, my friend, that we 
 should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, 
 decay, and perish unenjoyed ? 
 
 637 Goethe : Sorroivs of Weigher. 
 
 Fullness. 
 
 When God hath made us smart for our fullness 
 and wantonness, then we grew sullen, and mur- 
 mured and disputed against Providence. 
 
 638 Stillingfleet : Sermons. 
 
 Fun. 
 
 That fun, the most English of qualities, which 
 does not reach the height of humor, yet over- 
 whelms even gravity itself with a laughter in 
 which there is no sting or bitterness. 
 
 639 Mrs. Oliphant : Sheridan. 
 
 Fussiness. 
 
 She was fussy, no doubt, but her real activity 
 bore a fair proportion to her fussiness. 
 
 640 JMarryat : Snarleyyow. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 89 
 
 Futility. 
 
 We have too much experience of the futility of 
 an easy reliance on the momentary good disposi- 
 tion of the public, 
 
 641 Emerson : American Civilization. 
 
 Futurity. 
 
 Futurity is the great concern of mankind. 
 
 642 Burke : Abridgment of English History , 
 
 Bk. i., Ch. 2. 
 
 The future is lighted for us with the radiant 
 colors of hope. 
 
 643 John Fiske : The Destiny of Man. 
 XVI. The Question as to a Future Life. 
 
 We know what we are, but know not what we 
 may be. 
 
 644 Shaks. : Hamlet, Activ,, Sc. 5. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gab. 
 
 I always knew you had the gift of gab, of 
 course, but I never believed you were half the 
 man you are. 
 
 645 Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 27. 
 
 Gabbling. 
 
 Barbarians, who are in every respect scarce one 
 degree above brutes, having no language among 
 
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 understood neither by themselves or others. 
 
 646 Addison: Spectator. JSTo. 389. 
 
 Gagging. 
 
 The time was not yet come when eloquence was 
 to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked. 
 
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 647 Macaulay: Essays. Machiavclli. 
 
90 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Gain. 
 
 To live is Christ, and to die is gain. 
 
 648 New Testament: Philippians, i. 21. 
 What comes from this quarter, set it down as so 
 
 much gain. Terence : Adelphoe, 
 
 649 Act v., Sc. 3, 30. (816.) 
 
 Gallantry. 
 
 I take the gallantry of private soldiers to pro- 
 ceed from the same if not from a nobler impulse 
 than that of gentlemen and officers. 
 
 650 Steele: Toiler. No. 87. 
 
 Gallows. 
 
 1 Clo. What is he that builds stronger than 
 either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter ? 
 
 2 Clo. The gallows-maker; for that frame out- 
 lives a thousand tenants. 
 
 651 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Gambling. 
 
 Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all 
 one thing, — it is getting money without giving an 
 equivalent for it. 
 
 652 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs. 
 
 This is a vice which is productive of every pos- 
 sible evil, equally injurious to the morals and 
 health of its votaries. It is the child of avarice, 
 the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. 
 
 653 George Washington: 
 Letter, Newburgh, Jan. 15, 1783. 
 
 Gardeners. 
 
 There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, 
 ditchers, and grave-makers ; they hold up Adam's 
 profession. 
 
 Q54: Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 91 
 
 Gardens. 
 
 God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, 
 indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures, it is 
 the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, 
 without which buildings and palaces are but gross 
 handiwork ; and a man shall ever see that when 
 ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to 
 build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if 
 gardening were the greater perfection. 
 
 655 Bacon: Essays. Of Gardens. 
 
 Garret. 
 
 My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never 
 put her precious jewels into a garret four stories 
 high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had 
 ever very empty heads. 
 
 656 Bacon: Apothegms. No. 17. 
 
 Gathering. 
 
 I'll make a gathering for him, I a purse, and 
 put the poor slave in fresh rags. 
 
 657 Ben Jonson: Poetaster, iii., 1. 
 
 Gayety. 
 
 His death [Garrick's] eclipsed the gayety of 
 nations, and impoverished the public stock of 
 harmless pleasure. 
 
 658 Dr. Johnson : Life of Edmund Smith. 
 
 General. 
 
 Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a 
 good captain to make him an ill general." 
 
 659 Montaigne: Works, Bk. iii., Ch. 9. 
 
 Of Vanity. 
 
92 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Generalities. 
 
 Its constitution the g;litterin°; and sounding' gen- 
 eralities of natural right which make up the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 660 Rufus Choate: 
 Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856. 
 
 Generation. 
 
 Venerable men ! you have come down to us 
 from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously 
 lengthened out your lives, that you might behold 
 this joyous day. Daniel Webster : 
 
 661 Address on Laying the Corner-stone of 
 
 Bunker-Hill Monument, 1825. 
 
 Generosity. 
 
 True generosity is a duty as indispensably ne- 
 cessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It 
 is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should 
 be the sovereign law of a rational being. 
 
 662 Goldsmith: The Bee. No. 3. 
 
 Generosity is the flower of justice. 
 
 663 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 1850. 
 
 What is called generosity is generally only the 
 vanity of giving, which we like better than what 
 we give. 
 
 664 La Rochefoucauld: Maxims ( ?), 263. 
 
 Generosity once aroused cannot remain inactive, 
 for it is a quality whose beauties are enhanced by 
 its exercise. 
 
 665 Pliny the Younger: Epistolce, v., 12. 
 
 Genius. 
 
 To do what is impossible for talent is the mark 
 of genius. Amiel : Journal, Oct. 27, 1856. 
 
 666 {Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator,) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 93 
 
 Genius is mainly an affair of energy. 
 
 667 Matthew Arnold : Essays in Criticism. 
 Genius studies the causal thought, and far back 
 
 in the womb of things sees the rays parting from 
 one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite 
 diameters. 
 
 668 Emerson: Essays. History. 
 
 That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own 
 before the masterpieces of the world. 
 
 669 T. W. Higglnson: Atlantic Essays. 
 
 A Plea for Culture (1867). 
 We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. 
 
 670 Wendell Phillips : Orations, Speeches, 
 Lectures and Letters. Toussaint HOuverture. 
 
 Genius inspires this thirst for fame ; there is no 
 blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave 
 the means of winning it. 
 
 671 Mme. de Stael: Corinne, Bk. xvi., Ch. 1. 
 Gentility. 
 
 In the elder English dramatists . . . there is a 
 constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble 
 behavior were as easily marked in the society of 
 their age as color is in our American population. 
 
 672 Emerson: Essays. 
 
 Neither did they establish their claims to gen- 
 tility at the expense of their tailors — for as yet 
 those offenders against the pockets of society and 
 the tranquillity of all aspiring young gentlemen 
 were unknown in New Amsterdam. 
 
 673 Irving : History of New York. 
 
 Gentleman. 
 
 The gentleman is a Christian product. 
 
 674 George H. Calvert: 
 
 The Gentleman, Ch. 10. 
 
94 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 A man may learn from his Bible to be a more 
 thorough gentleman than if he had been brought 
 up in all the drawing-rooms in London. 
 
 675 Charles Kingsley: Water Babies, Ch. 3. 
 A gentleman born, master parson ; who writes 
 
 himself armigero ; in any bill, warrant, quittance, 
 or obligation, armigero. 
 
 676 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Gentleness. 
 
 It is only people who possess firmness who can 
 possess true gentleness. In those who appear 
 gentle it is generally only weakness, which is 
 readily converted into harshness. 
 
 677 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. Xo. 479. 
 
 Gentle w oman. 
 
 If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should 
 have been buried out of Christian burial. 
 
 678 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Gentry. 
 
 Families amongst the gentry or what on the con- 
 tinent would be called the lower nobility, that re- 
 membered with love the solemn ritual and services 
 of the Romish Church. 
 
 679 De Quixcey: Secret Societies, Ch. 1. 
 
 Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gen- 
 try in thy early rambles, it is good to give him a 
 penny. Charles Lamb : Essays of E 'lice. 
 
 680 Chimney Sweepers. 
 
 Genuineness. 
 
 It is the " one thing needful," this genuineness; 
 work in which it is found has value : other work 
 has no right to exist, and had better be destroyed. 
 
 681 J. R. Seeley: Natural Religion, p. 155. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 95 
 
 Gesture. 
 
 The natural language of gesture is God's lan- 
 oria^e. We did not invent it. Surely natural 
 lano;uao;e is the lano*ua°'e of nature ; and these 
 gestures which make us hang the head, and give 
 us the erect attitude, are proclamations made, not 
 by the will of man, but by the will of that Power 
 which has co-ordinated all things, and given them 
 harmony with each other, and never causes an in- 
 stinct to utter a lie. 
 
 682 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. 
 Conscience. Phys. Tangibleness of the Moral Law. 
 
 Gettings. 
 
 To my great discontent do find that my gettings 
 this year have been £573 less than my last. 
 
 683 Pepys : Diary. 
 
 Ghastliness. 
 
 The cold and ghastly moon glancing through 
 bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking. 
 
 68± Charlotte Broxte : Jane Eyre, Ch. 1. 
 
 Ghosts. 
 
 Ghosts are almost the first oriess of the savage, 
 almost the last infirmity of the civilized imagina- 
 tion ; on these forms, shadowy and unsubstantial 
 as they are, solid superstructures of ritual and 
 morality have been based, and apparitions, with 
 the consequences of the belief in them, have a liter- 
 ature and a history of their own. 
 
 685 Andrew Lang : Apparitioiis. 
 
 Encyclopaedia Britannic a . 
 
 True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks 
 about and few have seen. 
 
 686 La Rochefoucauld : Maxim 76. 
 
96 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Giants. 
 
 There were giants in the earth in those clays. 
 
 687 Old Testament : Genesis vi. 4. 
 Gibberish. 
 
 He that applies his names to ideas different 
 from their common use . . . speaks gibberish. 
 
 688 Locke: Human Under standing, iii., x., 31. 
 Gibbets. 
 
 A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I 
 had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead 
 bodies. >To eye hath seen such scarecrows. 
 
 689 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 Gifts. 
 
 The only gift is a portion of thyself. . . . 
 Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd, 
 his lamb ; the farmer, corn ; the miner, a gem ; 
 the sailor, coral and shells ; the painter, his pic- 
 ture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. 
 
 690 Emerson: Essays. Gifts. 
 
 Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good 
 gifts. 
 
 691 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 Girls. 
 
 You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She 
 
 grows as a flower does, — she will wither without 
 
 sun ; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus 
 
 will if you do not give her air enough ; she may 
 
 fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her 
 
 without help at some moments of her life ; but you 
 
 cannot fetter her ; she must take her own fair 
 
 form and way if she take any, and in mind as in 
 
 body must have always — 
 
 " Her household motions light and free, 
 And steps of virgin liberty." 
 
 692 Euskin : Sesame and Lilies. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 97 
 
 Giving. 
 
 The head as well as the heart is needed in giv- 
 ing; and giving is a training for one's brain as well 
 as for one's feelings. 
 
 693 Dr. Watson ("Ian Maclaren ") : 
 
 Church Folks, Ch. 8. 
 Gladness. 
 
 Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joy- 
 fulness of a man prolongeth his days. 
 
 694 Old Testament : Ecclesiaslicas xxx. 22. 
 
 Glory. 
 
 True glory lies in noble deeds, and in the recog- 
 nition, alike by leading men and by the nation at 
 large, of valuable services rendered to the State. 
 
 695 Cicero : Philippica, i., 12, 29. 
 
 No path of flowers leads to glory. 
 
 696 La Fontaine; Bk. x., Fable 14. 
 
 Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, — nothing 
 so expensive as glory. 
 
 697 Sydney Smith: Memoir, Vol. i., p. 88. 
 
 God. 
 
 God is a being who gives everything but punish- 
 ment in over measure. 
 
 698 Henry Ward Beecher : Life TJwughts. 
 
 God deceiveth thee not. 
 
 699 Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, 
 
 Bk. iv., Ch. 18. {Benham, Translator.) 
 
 God alone is true ; God alone is great : alone 
 is God. Laboulaye : Abdallah, Ch. 7. 
 
 700 {Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 
 
 God alone is entirely exempt from all want : of 
 human virtues, that which needs least is the most 
 absolute and divine. Plutarch: Lives. 
 
 701 AHstides and Marcus Cato. 
 
98 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Our God is a household God, as well as a 
 heavenly one. He has an altar in every man's 
 dwelling ; let men look to it when the}' rend it 
 lightly, and pour out its ashes. 
 
 702 Rdskin: The Siren Lamps of 
 
 Architecture, Ch. 6, No*. 3. 
 
 If there were no God, it would be necessary 
 to invent him. 
 
 703 Voltaire: Epitre a VAuieur rfu Livre 
 
 des Trois Imposteurs, exi. 
 
 Gods. 
 
 He whom the gods favor dies young, while he 
 is in his health, has his senses and his judgment 
 sound. PLAUTUS: Baechides, 
 
 704 Activ., Se. 7. (BUey, Trans.y 
 
 Gold. 
 
 Why, give him gold enough and marry him to 
 a puppet, or an aglet-baby ; or an old trot with 
 ne'er a tooth in her head . . . Why, nothing 
 comes amiss, so money comes withal. 
 
 705 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he 
 wrote, did it better than any other man could do. 
 
 706 Dr. Johnson: BoswelPs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. vii., Ch. 3. 1778. 
 
 Good. 
 
 Xever be afraid of what is o-ood ; the £'ood is 
 always the road to what is true. 
 
 707 HA3IERTOX: Modem Frenchmen. 
 
 Henri Perreijre. 
 
 1 Menander has a sentence to this effect : " He whom the 
 
 gods love, dies young." 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 99 
 
 Hearkeners, we say, seldom hear good of 
 themselves. Matthew Henry: 
 
 708 Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii. 
 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with 
 
 good. 
 
 709 New Testament : Ramans xii. 21. 
 
 Good-breeding. 
 
 Good-breeding has been very justly defined to 
 be the result of much good sense, some good- 
 nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of 
 others, and with a view to obtain the same indul- 
 gence from them. Lord Chesterfield : 
 
 710 Advice to His Son. Good-Breeding . 
 
 Good-fell owship. 
 
 There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good- 
 fellowship in thee. 
 
 711 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Good-fortune. 
 
 A man is never so on trial as hi the moment of 
 excessive good-fortune. 
 
 712 Lew Wallace: Ben Hur, Bk. v., Ch. 7. 
 
 Good-nature. 
 
 Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true 
 
 Christianity. Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 713 Pro ve rbs from Plym o u th Pu Ip it . 
 
 Goodness. 
 
 Goodness lies in abstaining not merely from 
 injustice, but from the desire for injustice. 
 
 714 Democritfs: Ethica, Fragment 38 (109). 
 
 Your goodness must have some edge to it, — 
 else it is none. 
 
 715 Emersox : Essays. Self- Reliance. 
 
 LofC. 
 
100 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Goodness does not more certainly make men 
 happy than happiness makes them good. 
 
 716 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. 
 Gossip. 
 
 Half the gossip of society would perish if the 
 books that are truly worth reading were but read. 
 
 717 George Dawson: Address, at Opening 
 
 the Birmingham Free Library . 
 
 Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad 
 as the tale-makers. 
 
 718 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 
 
 Act i., Sc. 1. 
 Government. 
 
 The essence of a free government consists in an 
 effectual control of rivalries. 
 
 719 John Adams: Discourses on Davila. 
 
 Government is a contrivance of human wisdom 
 to provide for human wants. Men have a right 
 that these wants should be provided for by this 
 wisdom. 
 
 720 Burke : Reflections on the Bev. in France. 
 All free governments are party governments. 
 
 721 Garfield: The Works of James Abram 
 
 Garfield. House of Representatives. 
 The freedom of a government does not depend 
 upon the quality of its laws, but upon the power 
 that has the right to create them. 
 
 722 Thaddeus Stevens: 
 Speech, House of Representatives, Jan. 3, 1867. 
 
 The aggregate happiness of society, which is 
 best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, 
 is, or ought to be, the end of all government. 
 
 723 George Washington : Political Maxims. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 101 
 
 Whatever government is not a government of 
 laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may. 
 
 724 Daniel Webster : Speech, Aug. 25, 1835. 
 
 Reception, Bangor, 31c. 
 Grace. 
 
 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned 
 with salt. 
 
 725 New Testament : Colossians iv. 6. 
 
 Grandeur. 
 
 Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. 
 
 726 Alexander Smith : 
 Dreamthorp. On the Writing of Essays. 
 
 Gratitude. 
 
 Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. 
 
 727 Auerbach: On the Heights. 
 
 {Bennett, Translator .) 
 
 Justice is often pale and melancholy : but Grat- 
 itude, her daughter, is constantlv in the now of 
 spirits and the bloom of loveliness. 
 
 728 Laxdor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 David Hume and John Home. 
 Grave. 
 
 I would rather sleep in the southern comer of a 
 little country churchyard, than in the tomb of the 
 Capulets. Burke: 
 
 729 Letter. To Matthew Smith. 
 I shall be as secret as the grave. 
 
 730 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 62. 
 
 Gravity. 
 
 Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps 
 the mind steadv. It is either true or counterfeit. 
 
 731 Thomas Fuller: 
 The Holy State. Of Gravity. 
 
102 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight ? 
 
 732 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 'Tis not for gravity to play at cherrypit with 
 Satan. Shaks. : 
 
 733 Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 The gravity and tenrperance of the Mussulman 
 are doubtless congenial to the dignity and tem- 
 perance of Oriental life. Dean Stanley : 
 
 734 History of the Eastern Church, Lect. 8. 
 
 Greatness. 
 
 Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to 
 excite love, interest, and admiration ; and the out- 
 ward proof of possessing greatness is, that we 
 excite love, interest, and admiration. 
 
 735 Matthew Arnold : 
 Culture and Anarchy. Sweetness and Light. 
 
 Great souls are always loyally submissive, rev- 
 erent to what is over them : only small , mean 
 souls are otherwise. 
 
 736 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Man of Letters. 
 
 Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed, 
 to be simple is to be great. 
 
 737 Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. 
 
 There was never yet a truly great man that was 
 not at the same time truly virtuous. 
 
 738 Benjamin Franklin: The Busy -Body . 
 
 Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks ; 
 they are the summits of ranges. 
 
 739 T. W. Higginson: Atlantic Essays. 
 
 A Plea for Culture (1867). 
 
DICTIONARY OF PB JOTATIOHS. 1 
 
 Great men are amor > which God 
 
 bestows iv 
 
 740 George S. Hillard: Memorial Meeting 
 
 to Do. bster, Boston , Oct. 25, 1852. 
 
 Some are born grent. som _. ~. 
 
 and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. 
 
 741 ShaRS. : T \ Xi '-.'. Act ::.. So. 
 
 Greece. 
 
 Here's :he:n h: cv.r j-onntry of Greece _ us mere 
 with begging tlian we can do with working. 
 
 742 Soaks.: Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Greed. 
 
 Greed whir has overst ped natural limits 
 
 is certain to pr: mes. 
 
 743 Sknrca: Epistolm, xxsix., 5. 
 
 Grief. 
 
 Ire tired el grief decrease:.! when i: can swell 
 no long 
 
 744 Bacon: M Iliorical Works. 
 
 h ionalia. 
 Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence 
 of grief the blunder of :. vie. 
 
 745 Disraeli (Earl of Beacoxsftelp") : 
 
 Vivian Grey, Bk. vi .. Ch, 7. 
 Every one can mas:er a rrief but he that has it. 
 74< Shaks. : 31 :..■;■ h A:::. Act ill.. >e. '2. 
 
 Grotesque. The. 
 
 The true _:"-.-«/:.- : ._ the expres-i 
 r or ] re is r fals a 
 
 pie opposed to it. which is the res dl : the 
 full I ne. 
 
 747 Ruskim: The Stones of Venice ill. 
 
 I ... ill . - 
 
104 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Growth. 
 
 For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid 
 growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the 
 sky in a night. 
 
 748 Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Ch. 4. 
 
 Guardianship. 
 
 It seems to me the idea of our civilization, 
 underlying all American life, is, that men do not 
 need any guardian. We need no safeguard. Not 
 only the inevitable, but the best power this side of 
 the ocean, is the unfettered average common sense 
 of the masses. 
 
 749 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, Lectures, 
 
 and Letters. Harper's Ferry. 
 Guests. 
 
 The first day a man is a guest, the second a 
 burden, the third a pest. 
 
 750 Laboulaye: Abclallah, Ch. 9. 
 
 {Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 
 Guilt. 
 
 Guilt was never a rational thing ; it distorts all 
 the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, 
 it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his 
 reason, it puts him into confusion. 
 
 751 Burke: Speech, Feb. 17, 1788. 
 Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Fifth Day. 
 
 Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon 
 it. Congreve : The Double- Dealer, 
 
 lb2 Act vi., Sc. 17. 
 
 Gypsies. 
 
 Steal ! to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve 
 your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, 
 — disfigure them to make 'em pass for their ow r n. 
 
 753 Sheridan: The Critic, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 105 
 
 Habit, 
 
 That to which we have been accustomed be- 
 comes as it were a part oi our nature. 
 
 754 Aristotle: Bhetorica, i., 11. 
 Habit is the approximation of the animal system 
 
 to the organic. It is a confession of failure in the 
 highest function of being, which involves a per- 
 petual self-determination, in full view of all exist- 
 ing circumstances. 
 
 755 Holmes : The Autocrat of the 
 
 Breakfast Table. Ch. 7, 
 
 Habit is a second nature. 
 
 756 Montaigne: Bk. iii., Ch. 10. Of Vanity. 
 
 Hades. 
 
 Yet, of the dead, who hath returned from Hades ? 
 
 757 Euripides : Hercules Furens, 297- 
 
 Hair. 
 
 One hair of a woman can draw more than a 
 hundred pair of oxen. 
 
 758 James Howell : Letters % Y5k.\\., iv. (1621). 
 
 Hand. 
 
 There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is 
 a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth 
 to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the 
 cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil 
 from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which 
 we drop as a burning coal. C. A. Bartol: 
 
 759 The Rising Faith. Training. 
 
 All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this 
 little hand. 
 
 760 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
106 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Handsome. 
 
 A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath 
 two gowns and everything handsome about him. 
 
 761 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Hanging. 
 
 Hanging is the word, sir: if you be ready for 
 that, 3'ou are well cooked, 
 
 762 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 Hanging was the worst use a man could be put 
 
 to. Sir Henry Wotton : The Dis- 
 
 763 parity Between Buckingham and Essex. 
 
 Happiness. 
 
 Happiness is the natural flower of duty.. 
 
 764 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
 
 II. The Withheld Completions of Life, 
 Happiness lies, first of all, in health. 
 
 765 George William Curtis: 
 
 Lotus-Eating. Trenton. 
 Happiness is rather a negative than a positive 
 term in this w r orld, and consists more in the ab- 
 sence of some things than in the presence of others. 
 
 766 Sam Slick (Thomas C. Haliburton) : 
 
 The Old Judge, Ch. 5. 
 How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
 through another man's eyes ! 
 
 767 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 
 
 768 Henry D Thoreau : Winter. 
 
 Journal, Jan. 21, 1838. 
 Harmony. 
 
 Variety is the condition of harmony. 
 
 769 James Freeman Clarke: 
 Ten Great Religions, Pt. i.. Ch. 12. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 107 
 
 Harshness 
 
 I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromis- 
 ing as justice. William Lloyd Garrison: 
 
 770 The Liberator, Vol. L, No. 1, 1831. 
 
 Haste. 
 
 Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and 
 want makes strife between the good man and his 
 wife. 
 
 771 Old Proverb. 
 
 Hatred. 
 
 Hatred is self-punishment. 
 
 772 Hosea Ballou : MSS. Sermons. 
 
 Men hate those to whom they have to lie. 
 
 773 Victor Hugo: The Toilers oj the Sea, 
 
 Pt. i., Bk. vi., Ch. 6. 
 Haughtiness. 
 
 The haughty are always the victims of their own 
 rash conclusions. Le Sage: 
 
 774 Gil Bias, Bk. ix., Ch. 5. (Smollett, Trans.) 
 
 Hay. 
 
 While the sunne shineth, make hay. 
 
 775 John Heywood: Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 3. 
 
 Head. 
 
 Two heads are better than one. 
 
 776 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 9. 
 
 Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of 
 meat. 
 
 777 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Health. 
 
 There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of 
 physic: a man's own observation, what he finds 
 
108 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best 
 physic to preserve health. But it is a safer con- 
 clusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, there- 
 fore I will not continue it, than this, I find no 
 offence of this, therefore I may use it. 
 
 778 Bacon: Essays. Of Health. 
 
 The study of the soul in health and disease 
 ought to be as much an object of scientific study 
 and training as the health and diseases of the body. 
 
 779 Henry Drummond : The New 
 
 Evangelism. Spiritual Diagnosis. 
 
 The first wealth is health. 
 
 780 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 
 
 Heart 
 
 The human heart is like a millstone in a mill : 
 when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds 
 and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no 
 wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it 
 grinds and wears away. 
 
 781 Martin Luther : Table Talk. 
 
 Of Temptation and Tribulation. 
 
 A man's heart deviseth his way ; but the Lord 
 directeth his steps. 
 
 782 Old Testament : Proverbs xvi. 9. 
 
 A good heart's worth gold. 
 
 783 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii , Sc. 4. 
 
 Heathen. 
 
 What, art a heathen ? How dost thou under- 
 stand the Scripture ? 
 
 784 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 109 
 
 Heaven. 
 
 Heaven will be inherited by every man who 
 has heaven in his soul. 
 
 785 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 
 If it is necessary that there should be a heaven, 
 
 it is necessary that it should be kept heavenly. 
 
 786 Henry Drummond : The New 
 Evangelism. Survival of the Fittest. 
 
 Heaven's above all ; and there be souls that 
 must be saved, and there be souls that must not 
 be saved. 
 
 787 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Hectoring. 
 
 But when huffing and hectoring must be looked 
 upon as the only badges of gallantry and courage 
 what can recommend the exercise of patience 
 against the disgrace of it ? 
 
 788 Bobert South: Works, iii., xxxi. 
 
 Heels. 
 
 I suppose this is a spice of foreign breeding to 
 let your uncle kick his heels in your hall. 
 
 789 Foote : The Minor, ii. 
 Come at my heels, Jack Bugby. 
 
 790 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Heirloom. 
 
 What practical man ever left such an heirloom 
 to his countrymen as the ' < Faery Queen " ? 
 
 791 Loavell: Among My Books. Spenser. 
 
 Hell. 
 
 Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may 
 be respectable and wear good clothes. 
 
 792 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. 
 
 XII. The Pharisee's Prayer. 
 
110 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I think the devil will not have me damned, lest 
 the oil that is in me should set hell on fire. 
 
 793 Shaks. : Mer. W. ofW., Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Hellenism. 
 
 The development of our Hellenizing instincts, 
 seeking* ardently the intelligible law of things, 
 and making a stream of fresh thought play freely 
 about our stock notions and habits is what is most 
 wanted by us at present. 
 
 794 Matthew Arnold : Culture and Anarchy. 
 
 Helm. 
 
 That dissembling abominable varlet Diomed, 
 has got that same scurvy doting foolish young 
 knave's sleeve of Troy there, in his helm. 
 
 795 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Help, Helpers, Helping. 
 
 The Boston help reads Dante while she prepares 
 the succulent pork and beans. 
 
 796 New Eng. Journal of Education, xxii., 54. 
 
 Fellow-laborers in the same vineyard, not lord- 
 ing over their rights, but helpers of their joy. 
 
 797 Burke : Economical Reform. 
 
 More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of 
 simple human pity that will not forsake us. 
 
 798 George Eliot : Mill on the Floss, Ch. 7. 
 
 Heredity. 
 
 A child inherits its parents' nature not as a 
 special punishment, but by natural law. 
 
 799 Henry Drummond : 
 
 The New Evangelism. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. Ill 
 
 Heroes. 
 
 Heroes, it would seem, exist always, and a cer- 
 tain worship of them. 
 
 800 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, 
 and to that person whatever he says has an en- 
 hanced value. 
 
 801 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Heroism. 
 
 The characteristic of genuine heroism is its 
 persistency. All men have wandering impulses, 
 fits and starts of generosity. But when you have 
 resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do 
 not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the 
 world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor 
 the common the heroic. 
 
 802 Emerson: Essays. Heroism. 
 A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises 
 
 above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory 
 of the mightiest empire of the earth. 
 
 803 Garfield : The Works of James Abram 
 
 Garfield. Oration, Arlington, Va., 1868. 
 
 Hero- Worship. 
 
 Society is founded on hero-worship. 
 
 804 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero- Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Divinity, 
 Pure hero-worship is healthy. It stimulates the 
 young to deeds of heroism, stirs the old to un- 
 selfish efforts, and gives the masses models of 
 mankind that tend to lift humanity above the 
 commonplace meanness of ordinary life. 
 
 805 Donn Piatt : Memories of the Men who 
 
 Saved the Union. Preface. 
 
112 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Historian. 
 
 Historians ought to be precise faithful, and un- 
 prejudiced ; and neither interest nor fear, hatred 
 nor affection, should make them swerve from the 
 way of truth. Cervantes : 
 
 806 Don Quixote, Pt. i.,Bk. ii., Ch. 9. 
 
 (Jarvis , Translator . ) 
 
 To be a really good historian is perhaps the 
 rarest of intellectual distinctions. 
 
 807 Macaulay: Essays. History. 
 
 {Edinburgh Revieiv, May, 1828 ) 
 History. 
 
 History, as it lies at the root of all science, is 
 also the first distinct product of man's spiritual 
 nature : his earliest expression of what can be 
 called thought. Carlyle : 
 
 808 Essays. On History. (Frazer's Mag.) 
 
 History is the witness of the times, the light of 
 truth, the life of memory, the schoolmistress of 
 life, the herald of antiquity ; receiving from the 
 voice of the orator alone her credentials to immor- 
 tality. 
 
 809 Cicero: Be Oratore, ii., 9, 36. 
 History owes its excellence more to the writer's 
 
 manner than to the materials of which it is com- 
 posed. Goldsmith : 
 
 810 Life of Richard Nash, Esq. 
 History is little else than a picture of human 
 
 crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire : 
 
 811 J VIngenu, Ch. 10 (1767). 
 
 Holidays. 
 
 Life without holidays is like a long journey 
 without rest-houses. Democritus : 
 
 812 Ethica, Fragment, 229 (32). 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 113 
 
 I have a great confidence in the revelations 
 which holidays bring forth. 
 
 813 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 Speech, Rouse of Commons, Feb. 29, 1864. 
 
 Home. 
 
 Home, — the nursery of the Infinite. 
 
 814 William Ellery Chaining : 
 
 Note Book. Children. Education. 
 
 A man who in the struggles of life has no home 
 to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's 
 best rewards and life's best defences. 
 
 815 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil XXIII. Home. 
 
 Homer. 
 
 We can say nothing but what hath been said. 
 Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story- 
 dressers do as much : he that comes last is com- 
 monly best. Burton : 
 
 816 Anatomy of Melancholy. 
 
 Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. 
 
 817 Horace: Ats Poetica, 359. 
 
 Honesty. 
 
 A rich man is an honest man, no thanks to him, 
 for he would be a double knave to cheat mankind 
 when he had no need of it. 
 
 818 Daniel De Foe : Serious Reflections. 
 
 An honest man, sir, is able to speak for him- 
 self, when a knave is not. 
 
 819 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 No legacy so rich as honesty. 
 
 820 Shaks. : AlVs Well, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
114 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I hope I shall always possess firmness and 
 virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the 
 most enviable of all titles, the character of an 
 «« honest man/'' 
 
 821 George Washington: Moral Maxims. 
 
 Honor. 
 
 Honor hath three things in it : the vantage- 
 ground to do good ; the approach to kings and 
 principal persons ; and the raising of a man's own 
 fortunes. Bacon : 
 
 822 Essays. Of Ambition. 
 
 That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a 
 wound. Burke : 
 
 823 Reflections on the Rev. in France. 
 
 Honors. 
 
 The honors we grant mark how high we stand, 
 
 O O 7 
 
 and they educate the future. The men we honor, 
 and the maxims we lay down in measuring our 
 favorites, show the level and morals of the time. 
 
 824 Wendell Phillips: 
 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Ldols. 
 
 Hope. 
 
 Hope is the parent of faith. 
 
 825 C. A. Bartol : Radical Problems. Hope. 
 
 Hope never spreads her golden wings but on 
 unfathomable seas. 
 
 826 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Progress of Culture. 
 
 He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. 
 
 827 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Nothing is more universal than hope, for those 
 have hope who have nothing else in the world. 
 
 828 Thales: (Stobwus, Florilegium, ex., 24). 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 115 
 
 Horse. 
 
 The ass will carry his load, but not a double 
 load; ride not a free horse to death. 
 
 829 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 71. 
 
 Hospitality. 
 
 In good company, you need not ask who is the 
 master of the feast. The man who sits in the 
 lowest place, and who is always industrious in 
 helping every one, is certainly the man. 
 
 830 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise 
 
 and Progress of the Arts and Sciences. 
 House. 
 
 Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ; 
 therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, 
 except where both may be had. 
 
 831 Bacon: Essays. Of Building. 
 
 Houses are like the human beings that inhabit 
 them. Victor Hugo : 
 
 832 The Toilers of the Sea, Pt. i., Bk. L, Ch. 2. 
 
 Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. 
 
 833 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Humanity. 
 
 Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In 
 this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and 
 Sentiment the sail ; when woman affects to steer, 
 the rudder is only a masked sail. 
 
 834 Emerson : Miscellanies. Woman. 
 Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. 
 
 835 Johnson: Boswell's life of Johnson. 
 IV. 27. {George Birkbeck HilL Editor, 1887.) 
 
 Human Nature. 
 
 Human nature with all its infirmities and depra- 
 vation is still capable of great things. It is capable 
 
116 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 of attaining to decrees of wisdom and of goodness, 
 which, we have reason to believe, appear respect- 
 able in the estimation of superior intelligences. 
 
 836 Johx Adams : Letters Addressed to His 
 
 Wife. Letter xxxvii. 
 Humble-pie. 
 
 Somewhere in life's feast the course of humble- 
 pie must always come in ; and if I did not wholly 
 relish this bit of it, I dare say it was good for me, 
 and I digested it perfectly. 
 
 837 W. D. Howells: Literary Friends and 
 
 Acquaintance. Pt. iii., vi. 
 Humility. 
 
 True love is the parent of a noble humility. 
 
 838 William Ellery Channing: 
 
 Note-Book. Love. 
 
 Humility is the altar upon which God wishes 
 that we should offer him his sacrifices. 
 
 839 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, 
 
 Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 79. 
 Humor. 
 
 Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is 
 not. Coleridge: Table Talk. 
 
 840 Additional Table Talk. Humor. 
 Shall quips and sentences and these paper 
 
 bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of 
 his humor? 
 
 841 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Humor is the mistress of tears. 
 
 842 Thackeray : Charity and Humor. 
 
 Hypocrisy. 
 
 A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a 
 saint. Bacon : Moral and Historical 
 
 843 Works. Ornamenta Bationalia. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 117 
 
 Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. 
 
 844 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or, 
 Sentences and Moral Maxims. Xo. 218. 
 
 I have heard of your paintings too, well enough ; 
 God has given you one face, and you make your- 
 selves another. 
 
 845 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 I. 
 
 Iconoclasm. 
 
 Iconoclasm. whether manifested in religion or 
 in politics, has regarded the existing order of 
 things, not as a product of evolution but as the 
 work of artful priests and legislators of antiquity 
 which may accordingly be destroyed as summarily 
 as it was created. 
 
 816 John Fiske : Cosmic Philosophy, II. 476. 
 
 Iconoclasm . . . was a primitive Eationalism 
 enforced upon an unreasoning age — an attempt to 
 spiritualize by law and edict a generation which 
 had been unspiritualized by centuries of material- 
 istic devotion. . . . Iconoclasm might proscribe 
 idolatry, but it had no power of kindling a purer 
 faith. Milman : History of Latin 
 
 847 Christianity, Vol. ii., Ch. 7. 
 
 Idea, Ideas. 
 
 Ideas in the head set hands about their several 
 tasks. A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 
 
 848 IT Enterprise. Ideas. 
 Ideas must work through the brains and the 
 
 arms of good and brave men, or they are no better 
 than dreams. Emerson : Miscellanies, 
 
 849 American Civilization. 
 
118 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The higher grade of development of ideas, of 
 intellect and reason, which raises man so much 
 above the brute, is intimately connected with the 
 rise of language. Ernest Haeckel : 
 
 850 The Paddle of the Universe, Ch. 7. 
 
 Psychic Gradations. 
 
 The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is 
 terrible. Victor Hugo: Ninety- Ihree, Pt. iii., 
 
 851 Bk. i., Ch. 6. (Benedict, Translator.) 
 
 That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, 
 and that a wrong one. Dr. Johnson : 
 
 852 BoswelVs Life of Johnson, Ch. 5, 1770. 
 
 Ideas often flash across our minds more com- 
 plete than we could make them after much labor. 
 
 853 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections-, 
 
 or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. 
 
 Idealism. 
 
 It is the very essence of the Kantian idealism 
 that objects are not there until they are thought. 
 
 854 E. Caird: Philosophy of Kant, p. 327. 
 
 Ideals. 
 
 Our ideals are our better selves. 
 
 855 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 
 
 V. Habits. Friendship. 
 
 Ideals are the world's masters. 
 
 856 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil. VI. The Ideal Christ. 
 
 Idleness. 
 
 A lazy man is necessarily a bad man ; an idle is 
 necessarily a demoralized population. 
 
 857 John William Draper : Thoughts on 
 
 the Future Civil Policy of America. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 119 
 
 Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than 
 kings and jjarliaments. If we can get rid of the 
 former, we may easily bear the latter. 
 
 858 Benjamin Franklin : Let. on Stamp Act. 
 
 Idolatry. 
 
 In that day a man shall cast his idols ... to 
 the moles and to the bats. 
 
 859 Old Testament: Isaiah ii. 20. 
 
 God will put up with a great many things in the 
 human heart, but there is one thing that he will 
 not put up with in it, — a second place. He who 
 offers God a second place, offers him no place. 
 
 860 Ruskin : Lect. on Architecture and Painting. 
 
 Ignorance. 
 
 Ignorance never settles a question. 
 
 861 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 Speech, House of Commons, May 14, 1866. 
 
 Ignorance gives us a large range of probabil- 
 ities. George Eliot : 
 
 862 Daniel Deronda, Bk. ii., Ch. 13. 
 
 Accursed be he who sins in ignorance, if that 
 ignorance be caused by sloth. 
 
 863 Ossoli {Sarah Margaret Fuller) : 
 
 Woman in the Nineteenth Century . 
 
 Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that 
 
 all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse 
 
 every man will plead, and no man can tell how 
 
 to refute him. 
 
 864 John Selden : Table Talk, Law. 
 Madam, thou errest : I say, there is no darkness, 
 
 but ignorance ; in which thou art more puzzled, 
 than the Egyptians in their fog. 
 
 865 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
120 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ignorance breeds rashness, reflection cowardice. 
 
 866 Thucydides: History, ii., 40, 3. 
 
 Ill-Humor. 
 
 Ill-humor arises from an inward consciousness 
 of our own want of merit, from a discontent which 
 ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity 
 engenders. Goethe: Sorrows of ' Werther '. 
 
 867 July 1. (Bay Ion, Translator.) 
 
 Illumination. 
 
 Perfect Illumination is only writing made lovely : 
 the moment it passes into picture-making it has 
 lost its dignity and function. 
 
 868 Ruskin: Lectures on Art, Sec. 143. 
 
 Illusion. 
 
 The cleverest, the acutest men are often 
 under an illusion about women ; . . . their good 
 woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; 
 their bad woman almost always a hend. 
 
 869 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 20. 
 
 Imagination. 
 
 The imagination is the secret and marrow of 
 civilization. It is the very eye of faith. 
 
 870 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 On the human imagination events produce the 
 effects of time. James Fenimore Cooper: 
 
 871 The Deer slayer, Ch. 1. 
 
 To write imaginatively a man should have — 
 imagination. 
 
 872 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryclen. 
 
 Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to 
 sweeten my imagination. 
 
 873 Shaks. : King Lear, Act iv.. Sc. 6, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 121 
 
 Immortality. 
 
 Immortality is the glorious discovery of Chris- 
 tianity. William Ellery Channing : 
 
 874 Works. Immortality. 
 
 The desire for immortality is not selfish. 
 
 875 Hugh R. Haweis : Speech in Season, 
 
 Bk. ii. Immortality, Sec. 276. 
 
 Work for immortality if you will : then wait for 
 it. Timothy Titcomb {J. G. Holland) : 
 
 876 Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 
 
 Impatience. 
 
 We get impatient, and there crops out our 
 human weakness. 
 
 877 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil. III. Patience. 
 
 Imperfections. 
 
 All things are literally better, lovelier, and 
 more beloved for the imperfections which have 
 been divinely appointed, that the law of human 
 life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment 
 mercy. Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. 
 
 878 The Sea Stories, Ch. 6, Sec. 25. 
 
 Imperialism. 
 
 Under the pretext of Imperialism and far-seeing 
 statesmanship, the habitual and hitherto incurable 
 fault of our governments — especially of Tory 
 governments — has been to look too far ahead. 
 
 879 W. R. Greg : Misc. Essays. First Ser. 
 The evacuation of Boston was not simply that 
 
 one flag went down and another flag went up 
 over the Province House and the Old State House ; 
 that soldiers in homespun followed down to the 
 wharves other soldiers in red coats. On the 17th 
 
122 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 day of March, 1776, republicanism under George 
 Washington drove imperialism under Sir William 
 Howe, out of Boston, never to come back. 
 
 880 George F. Hoar: Speech, March IS, 
 1901, on the Anniv. of the Evac. of Boston, 1776. 
 
 Impertinence 
 
 Nothing is more easy than to represent as im- 
 pertinences any parts of learning that have no 
 immediate relation to the happiness or convenience 
 of mankind. 
 
 881 Addison: Ancient Medals, \. 
 
 Impossibility. 
 
 A poet without love were a physical and meta- 
 physical impossibility. Carlyle : 
 
 882 Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828. 
 
 Imposture. 
 
 All imposture weakens confidence and chills 
 benevolence. 
 
 883 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. -14. 
 
 Impressions. 
 
 There is a great deal in the first impression. 
 884: Congreve: The Way of the World, 
 
 Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Improbability. 
 
 If this were pla} T ed upon a stage now, I could 
 condemn it as an improbable fiction. 
 
 885 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Improvement. 
 
 Improvement is nature. Leigh Hunt: 
 
 886 Table Talk. Imaginary Conversations of 
 
 Pope and Sivift, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 123 
 
 Improvidence. 
 
 Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long 
 thou shalt sell thy necessaries. 
 
 887 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Impudence. 
 
 Impudence is so nearly allied to Fortitude and a 
 praiseworthy assurance, that it often passes upon 
 the Vulgar for those laudable Qualifications. 
 
 888 Sir R. Blackmore : The Lay Monastery. 
 
 Inactivity. 
 
 The Commons, faithful to their system, re- 
 mained in a wise and masterly inactivity. 
 
 889 Sir James Mackintosh: 
 
 Vindicice Qallicw. 
 Inclination. 
 
 Men's thoughts are much according to their 
 inclination. Bacon : 
 
 890 Essays. Of Custom and Education. 
 
 I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose ; but 
 my inclination gets the better of my judgment. 
 
 891 Euripides: Medea. 1078. 
 
 Independence. 
 
 It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing 
 of God it shall be my dying sentiment, — Inde- 
 pendence now and Independence forever. 
 
 892 Daniel Webster: Eulogy on Adams 
 and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, Vol. i., p. 136. 
 
 Independence Day. 
 
 The second Day of July, 1776, will be the most 
 memorable epoch in the history of America. I am 
 apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeed- 
 ing generations as the great anniversary festival. 
 
124 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 It ought to be commemorated as the day of de- 
 liverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God 
 Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp 
 and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, 
 bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of 
 this continent to the other, from this time forward 
 forevermore. John Adams : 
 
 893 Letter, July 3, 1776. To Mrs. Adams. 
 
 Indexes. 
 
 I certainly think that the best book in the world 
 would owe the most to a good index, and the 
 worst book, if it had but a single good thought in 
 it, might be kept alive by it. 
 
 894 Horace Binney: Letter, Aprils, 1868. 
 
 To S. Austin Allibone. 
 
 So essential did I consider an index to be to 
 every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into 
 Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a 
 book without an index of the privilege of copy- 
 right, and, moreover, to subject him for his 
 offence to a pecuniary penalty. 
 
 895 Lord Campbell : Lives of the Chief 
 Justices of England, Vol. iii. Preface. 
 
 The value of an accurate index is well known to 
 those who have frequent occasion to consult volu- 
 minous works in any science ; and to construct a 
 good one requires great patience, labor and skill. 
 
 896 Joseph Story: Dane's Digest of 
 
 American Law. 
 
 India. 
 
 India is a place beyond all others where one 
 must not take things too seriously — the mid-day 
 sun always excepted. Too much work and too 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 125 
 
 much energy kill a man just as effectively as too 
 much assorted vice or too much drink. 
 
 897 Rudyahd Kipling : 
 Plain Tales from the Hills, llirown Away. 
 
 Indifference. 
 
 I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man 
 do I deem a matter of indifference to me. 
 
 898 Terence : Heautontimoroumenos , 
 
 Act i., Sc. 1, 25. (77.) 
 
 Individuality,. 
 
 Individuality is everywhere to be spared and 
 respected as the root of everything good. 
 
 899 Richter: Tytan Cycle, 111. 
 
 ( Brooks, Translator.) 
 
 Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every 
 subject's soul is his own. 
 
 900 Shaks. : Henry V., Activ., Sc. 1. 
 
 Indolence. 
 
 Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inade- 
 quacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for 
 indolence. 
 
 901 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk, 
 
 Industry. 
 
 Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all 
 things easy. 
 
 902 Benjamin Franklin : Poor BicharcVs Al. 
 
 The great end of all human industry is the 
 attainment of happiness. Hume : 
 
 903 Essays. XV. The Stoic; or, The Man 
 
 of Action and Virtue. 
 
126 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Honorable industry always travels the same 
 road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is 
 altogether impossible without it. 
 
 904 Samuel Smiles: Self -Help > Ch. 2. 
 
 Inequality. 
 
 One half of the world must SAveat and o^roan 
 that the other half may dream. 
 
 905 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. i., Ch. 4. 
 
 Inevitableness. 
 
 There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. 
 The only argument available Avith an east wind is 
 to put on your overcoat. 
 
 906 Lowell : Democracy and Addresses. 
 
 Infallibility. 
 
 Infallibility always paralyzes. It giA-es rest, 
 but it is the rest of stagnation. 
 
 907 Henry Drummond : 
 The Neio Evangelism, p. 29. 
 
 Infamy. 
 
 The vilest infamy is not too deep for the Seraph 
 Virtue to descend and illumine its abyss. 
 
 908 Bulwer-Lytton : The Disowned, Ch. 14. 
 
 Infidelity. 
 
 Man may doubt here and there, but mankind 
 does not doubt. The universal conscience is 
 larger than the individual conscience, and that 
 constantly comes in to correct and check our own 
 infidelity. Hugh R. Haweis : 
 
 909 Speech in Season, Bk. iii. The Prodigal. 
 
 He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an 
 infidel. 
 
 910 New Testament: 1 Timothy v. 8. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 127 
 
 Infinity. 
 
 That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly 
 considered, not more wonderful, not more impres- 
 sive, than that which we insolently call littleness ; 
 and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only 
 unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehen- 
 sible : it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the 
 pure, unsearchable sea. 
 
 911 Ruskin: Modem Painters, Pt. iii., Sec. 1. 
 
 Influence. 
 
 Influence is to be measured not by the extent of 
 surface it covers, but by its kind. 
 
 912 William Ellery Channing : Self- 
 Culture. {Address, Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838.) 
 
 Ingratitude. 
 
 The wicked are always ungrateful. 
 
 913 Cervantes : Bon Quixote, Pt. i., Bk. iii., - 
 
 Ch. 23. (Jar vis, Translator.} 
 
 Ingratitude is monstrous ; and for the multitude 
 to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the 
 multitude. 
 
 914 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Injustice. 
 
 Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become 
 a stale proverb in discourse. 
 
 915 Cicero: Be Officii*, i. 33. 
 
 Ink. 
 
 Let there be gall enough in thy ink ; though 
 thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. 
 
 916 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
128 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Innkeeper. 
 
 Though I am an innkeeper, thank Heaven I am 
 a Christian. Cervantes: Don Quixote, 
 
 917 Pt. i., Bk. iv., Ch. 32. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 
 Innocence. 
 
 Innocence is plain, direct, and simple; guilt is 
 a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing. 
 
 918 Burke: Speech, Feb. 15, 1788. 
 
 Impeachment of Warren Hastings. 
 
 To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is 
 the greatest prerogative of innocence: an exemp- 
 tion granted only to invariable virtue. 
 
 919 Dr. Johnson: The Rambler. No. 68. 
 
 Innovations. 
 
 As the births of living creatures at first are ill- 
 shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births 
 of time. 
 
 920 Bacon: Essays. Of Innovations. 
 
 Inns. 
 
 Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in 
 myne lime. 
 
 921 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. i., Ch. 5. 
 
 There is nothing which has yet been contrived 
 by man, by which so much happiness is produced 
 as by a good tavern or inn. 
 
 922 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson. 
 1776. (Routleclge edition, Vol. ii., Ch. 14.) 
 
 Insanity. 
 
 All power of fancy over reason is a degree of 
 insanity. 
 
 923 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 44, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 129 
 
 Insight. 
 
 A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's 
 experience. 
 
 924 Holmes: The Professor at the 
 
 Breakfast Table, Ch. 10. 
 Insincerity. 
 
 Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all 
 his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal ; so 
 that his whole life must seem like a merely 
 dramatic representation. 
 
 925 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 
 
 Inspiration. 
 
 Inspiration must find answering inspiration. 
 
 926 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 
 
 VI. Creeds. Scripture. 
 
 It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the 
 inspiration. 
 
 927 Burke : Prior's Life of Burke. 
 
 Instinct. 
 
 I was now a coward on instinct. 
 
 928 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-con- 
 sciousness. John Sterling: Essays and 
 
 929 Tales. Thoughts. Thoughts and Images. 
 
 Institutions. 
 
 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one 
 man; as, the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism, 
 of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of 
 C larks on. 
 
 930 Emerson: Essays. Self- Reliance. 
 
130 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I want you to turn your eyes from institutions 
 to men. The difficulty of the present day and 
 with us is, we are bullied by institutions. 
 
 931 Wendell Phillips: Speeches, Lectures, 
 
 and Letters. Public Opinion. 
 Instructors. 
 
 Men in teaching others, learn themselves. 
 
 932 Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 7. 
 
 {Thomas Lodge, Editor.) 
 Insults. 
 
 The way to procure insults is to submit to them. 
 A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. 
 
 933 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 402. 
 
 Integrity. 
 
 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. 
 
 934 Dr. Johnson: Iiasselas, Ch. 41. 
 
 Intellect. 
 
 Intellect really exists in its products ; its king- 
 dom is here. Hartley Coleridge : 
 
 935 Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. 
 
 Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, 
 he is free. 
 
 936 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. 
 
 Intelligence. 
 
 To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the 
 horizon of its desires and wants. 
 
 937 Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. 
 
 Address, Birmingham, Eng., Oct. 6, 1884. 
 
 Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to 
 country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and 
 all in turn receive it. 
 
 938 Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, 
 Mass., June, 1825. Bunker Hill Monument. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 131 
 
 Intemperance. 
 
 O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no 
 name to be known by, let us call thee devil. 
 
 9:59 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Intimacy. 
 
 The worst way of being intimate is by scrib- 
 bling. Dr. Johnson: 
 
 940 BoswclVs Life of Johnson. V. 93. 
 
 Interest. 
 
 Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays 
 all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. 
 
 941 La Rochefoucauld : Maxim 39. 
 
 Invention. 
 
 The fortune in being the first in an invention, or 
 in a privilege, doth cause sometimes a wonderful 
 overgrowth in riches ; as it was with the first 
 sugarman in the Canaries. 
 
 942 Bacon: Essays. Of Riches. 
 
 Without invention a painter is but a copier, and 
 a poet but a plagiary of others. 
 
 943 Dryden: Essays. Of Poetry and Painting . 
 
 Inventors. 
 
 Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and 
 every man is or should be an inventor. 
 
 944 Emerson : Letters and Social Ai?ns. 
 
 Quotation and Originality. 
 Very learned women are to be found, in the 
 same manner as female warriors ; but they are 
 seldom or never inventors. 
 
 945 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. 
 
 Women. 
 
132 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Iron. 
 
 When the iron is hot, strike. 
 
 946 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. L, Ch. 3. 
 
 He shall rule them with a rod of iron. 
 
 947 New Testament: Revelation ii. 27.. 
 
 Irony. 
 
 Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a 
 compliment. E. P. Whipple: 
 
 948 Literature and Life. Wit and Humor. 
 
 Irreverence. 
 
 We treat God with irreverence by banishing him 
 from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on 
 slight occasions. Ruskin : 
 
 949 The Seven Lamps of Architecture. 
 
 Iteration. 
 -^ej Iteration, like fiction, is likely to generate heat 
 
 instead of progress. George Eliot: 
 
 950 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. ii., Ch. 2. 
 
 J. 
 Jabbering. 
 
 He told me he did not know what travelling was 
 good for but to teach a man to ride the great 
 horse, to jabber French, and to talk against pas- 
 sive obedience. 
 
 951 Addison: Tory Foxhunter. 
 
 We dined like emperors, and jabbered in sev- 
 eral languages. 
 
 952 Macaulay : {Ln Irevelyan i., 213). 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 133 
 
 Jackanapes. 
 
 Or, if I might buffet for my love, or bound my 
 horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher, 
 and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. 
 
 953 Shaks. : Henry V., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Jacobins. 
 
 Itinerant revolutionary tribunals composed of 
 trusty Jacobins were to move from department to 
 department, and the guillotine was to travel in 
 their train. 
 
 954 Macaulay : Essays. Barerc. 
 
 Jail. 
 
 Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the 
 chance of being drowned. 
 
 955 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. ii., Ch. 3, 1759. 
 Jangle. 
 
 But now, Sir Peter, if we have finished our daily 
 jangle, I presume I may go to my engagement at 
 Lady Sneerweirs. 
 
 956 Sheridan : School j or Scandal, Act ii., Sc.l. 
 
 Jarring. 
 
 Although there be in their words a manifest 
 show of jar, yet none if we look upon the difference 
 of matter. 
 
 957 Hooker: Ecclesiastical Polity, Ch. 5. 
 
 Jealousy. 
 
 Jealousy is always born with love, but does 
 not always die with it. 
 
 958 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. Xo. 361. 
 Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as 
 
 the orave. 
 
 959 Old Testament : Song of Solomon, viii. 6. 
 
134 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 O jealousy ! thou magnifier of trifles ! 
 
 960 Schiller: Fiesco, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 ( Bohn , Translate r . ) 
 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand 
 forget her cunning. 
 
 961 % Old Testament: .Psalm cxxxvii. 5. 
 
 Jesting. 
 
 Jests that give pain are no jests. 
 
 962 Cervantes: Don Quixote, p. 17. 
 
 {Burke's Translation ) 
 A jest loses its point when he who makes it is 
 the first to laugh. Schiller : 
 
 963 Fiesco, Act i., Sc. 7. (Bohn, Irans.) 
 
 It would be argument for a week, laughter for 
 a month, and a good jest for ever. 
 
 964 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Christ is the one great typical man; and all 
 high manhood necessarily conforms to Christ. 
 
 965 Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 In Him was the perfect power of uttering God 
 to men, and of being full of God, not for himself 
 only but for mankind. His headship of our race, 
 his mecliatorship, his atonement, are various ways 
 of stating this idea. Everything that he was and 
 did, he was and did for us. He lived his life, he 
 died his death, for us. He took sorrow for us. 
 He took joy and comfort for us also. 
 
 966 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
 I. Ihe Purpose and Use of Comfort. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 135 
 
 The people's friend ? Where will you find him 
 but in Jesus Christ of Nazareth ? 
 
 967 Charles Kixgsley : Alton Locke, Ch. 37. 
 
 I refuse to permit discussion this evening re- 
 specting the love which a Christian man bears to 
 his Redeemer, — a love more delicate far than the 
 love which was ever borne to sister, ... a rever- 
 ence more sacred than man ever bore to mother. 
 
 968 Frederick W. Robertson: 
 Lectures and Addresses. Skeptical Pub. 
 
 Jewel. 
 
 Consistency, thou art a jewel. 
 
 969 Old Proverb. {Origin Unknown). 
 
 Jews. 
 
 I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a 
 Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, 
 passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the 
 same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed 
 by the same means, warmed and cooled by the 
 same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? 
 
 970 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Johnson, Samuel. 
 
 What a singular destiny has been that of this 
 remarkable man ! — To be regarded in his own 
 age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! To 
 receive from his contemporaries that full homage 
 which men of genius have in general received only 
 from posterity ; to be more intimately known to 
 posterity than other men are known to their con- 
 temporaries ! M\r allay: 
 
 971 On BoswelVs Life of Johnson (Croker's ed.). 
 
136 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Jokes. 
 
 It requires a surgical operation to get a joke 
 well into a Scotch understanding. 
 
 972 Sydney Smith : 
 
 A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith. 
 
 Journey. 
 
 As the Italians say, Good company in a journey 
 makes the way to seem the shorter. 
 
 973 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler, 
 
 Pt. L, Ch. i. 
 
 Joy. 
 
 Joy in one's work is the consummate tool with- 
 out which the work may be done indeed, but 
 without which the work will always be done 
 slowly, clumsily, and without its finest perfect- 
 ness. Phillips Brooks : 
 
 974 Sermons. The Joy of Self- Sacrifice. 
 
 Judges. 
 
 A king that setteth to sale seats of justice op- 
 press eth the people ; for he teacheth his judges to 
 sell justice, and "prelio parata pretio venditor 
 justitia" 
 
 975 Bacon: Essays. Of a King. 
 Judges must beware of hard constructions and 
 
 strained influences ; for there is no worse torture 
 than the torture of laws : specially in case of laws 
 penal, they ought to have care, that that which 
 was meant for terror be not turned into rigor. 
 
 976 Bacon: Essays. Of Judicature. 
 It is better that a judge should lean on the side 
 
 of compassion than severity. Cervantes : 
 
 977 Bon Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 
 
 (Jarvis, Translator. ) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 137 
 
 Judgment. 
 
 Judgment is forced upon us by experience. 
 
 978 Dr. Johnson: 
 
 Lives of the English Poets. Pope. 
 
 Commonly, we say a judgment falls upon a 
 man for something in him we cannot abide. 
 
 979 John Selden: Table Talk. Judgments. 
 
 Justice. 
 
 There is no virtue so truly great and godlike 
 as justice. 
 
 980 Addison: The Guardian. Xo. 99. 
 
 Justice is always violent to the party offending, 
 for every man is innocent in his own eyes. 
 
 981 Daniel De Foe: 
 Shortest Wag with Dissenters. 
 
 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. 
 
 982 Emerson : Lecture, Boston, May 30, 1878. 
 Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, 
 
 like God himself. Kossuth : 
 
 983 Select Speeches. Public Piracy of Russia. 
 
 New York, to the Bar, Dec. 19. 
 
 A man may see how this world goes with no 
 eyes. Look with thine eyes : see how yond justice 
 rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine 
 ear : change places ; and, handy-dandy, which is 
 the justice, which is the thief ? 
 
 984 Shaks. : King Lear, Act iv., Sc. 6. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kindness. 
 
 Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the 
 sting of unkindness in another. 
 
 985 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
138 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 In her tongue is the law of kindness. 
 
 986 Old Testament: Proverbs xxxi. 26. 
 
 Kings. 
 
 Kings will be tyrants from policy, when sub- 
 jects are rebels from principle. 
 
 987 Burke : Reflections on IheRev. in France, 
 
 Vol. iii., p. 334. 
 
 Strange ! to think how the Moth-kings lay up 
 treasures for the moth ; and the Rust-kings, who 
 are to their people's strength as rust to armor, 
 lay up treasures for the rust; and the Robber- 
 kings, treasures for the robber ; but how few 
 kings have ever laid up treasures that needed no 
 guarding — of which the more thieves there were 
 the better. Ruskix : 
 
 988 Sesame and Lilies. Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 
 As tedious as a king. 
 
 989 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Kisses. 
 
 The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a 
 cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. Holmes : 
 
 990 The Professor at the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 11. 
 Kissing with inside lip ? stopping the career of 
 
 laughter with a sigh ? 
 
 991 Shaks.: Wint. Tale, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Knavery. 
 
 Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is 
 the best defence against a knave. 
 
 992 Plutarch: Of Bashfulness. 
 
 A slippery and subtile knave ; a finder of 
 occasions, that has an eye can stamj) and counter- 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 139 
 
 feit advantages, though true advantage never 
 presents itself ; a devilish knave ! 
 
 993 Shaks. : Othelld, Act ii., So. 1. 
 
 Knowledge. 
 
 Knowledge is power. 
 
 994 Bacon : Meditationes Sacrce. 
 The more knowledge a man has, the better he'll 
 
 do's work ; and feeling's a sort o' knowledge. 
 
 995 George Eliot : Adam Bede, Ch. 52. 
 Our only real and valuable knowledge is a 
 
 knowledge of nature itself, and consists of pres- 
 entations which correspond to external things. 
 
 996 Ernest Haeckel: The Riddle of the 
 Unive rse, Ch . 16. Know ledge and Be lief. 
 
 Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and 
 dreadful. 
 
 997 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 41. 
 He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
 
 998 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes i. 18. 
 
 A man with knowledge, but without energy, is 
 a house furnished but not inhabited ; a man with 
 energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but 
 unfurnished. John Sterling: 
 
 999 Essays and Tales. Thoughts. 
 
 L. 
 
 Labelling. 
 
 I will give out divers schedules of my beauty : 
 it shall be inventoried; and every particle, and 
 utensil, labelled to my will : as, item, two lips in- 
 different red; item, two gray eyes, with lids to 
 them ; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. 
 
 1000 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act L, Sc. 5. 
 
140 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Labor. 
 
 Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in 
 heaven. 
 
 1001 Carlyle: Essays. Work. 
 When labor quarrels with capital, or capital 
 
 neglects the interests of labor, it is like the hand 
 thinking it does not need the eye, the ear, or the 
 brain. James Freeman Clarke : 
 
 1002 Self-Culture, p. 268. 
 It is not labor in itself that is repugnant to man ; 
 
 it is not the natural necessity for exertion which is 
 a curse. It is only labor which produces nothing 
 — exertion of which he cannot see the results. 
 
 1003 Henry George : Progress and Poverty, 
 
 p. 420. 
 A habit of labor in the people is as essential to 
 the health and vigor of their minds and bodies as 
 it is conducive to the welfare of the State. 
 
 1004 Alexander Hamilton : Works,, i., 257. 
 
 Labor for labor's sake is against nature. 
 
 1005 John Locke : The Conduct of the 
 
 Understanding , Sec. 16. Haste. 
 
 Immigration of labor is an unmixed good. 
 Importation of human freight is an unmitigated 
 evil. Wendell Phillips : Speeches, Lectures, 
 
 1006 and Letters. The Chinese. 
 
 Laborers. 
 
 The number of useful and productive laborers 
 is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of 
 capital stock which is employed in setting them to 
 work, and to the particular way in which it is so 
 employed. Adam Smith: 
 
 1007 Wealth of Nations, L, Lntroduction. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 141 
 
 Lacquey. 
 
 I saw a gay gilt chariot, drawn by fresh pran- 
 cing horses; the coachman with a new cockade 
 and the lacqueys with insolence and plenty in their 
 countenances. 
 
 1008 Steele: Taller. No. 4G. 
 
 Ladies. 
 
 Her artists were quick to give fine expression to 
 the new moods of the Middle Ages ; her gentlemen 
 were the first in Europe, and the first modern 
 ladies were Venetian. C. E. Xortox : 
 
 1009 Church Building in Middle Ages, p. 40. 
 
 Lair. 
 
 House the lion from his lair. 
 
 1010 Walter Scott: The Talisman, Ch. 6. 
 
 Lamp. 
 
 Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that 
 his arguments smelt of the lanrp. 
 
 1011 Plutarch: Life of Demosthenes. 
 
 Land. 
 
 And besides, the problem of land, at its worst, 
 is a by one ; distribute the earth as you will, the 
 principal question remains inexorable — Who is 
 to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do 
 the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what 
 pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, 
 and for what pay ? Who is to do no work, and 
 for what pay ? Rusktn : 
 
 1012 Sesame and Lilies . Of King's Treasuries. 
 
 Landmark. 
 
 Remove not the ancient landmark. 
 
 1013 Old Testament: Proverbs xxii. 28. 
 
142 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Landscape. 
 
 The true ideal of landscape is precisely the same 
 as that of the human form ; it is the expression of 
 the specific — not the individual, but the specific — 
 characters of every object in their perfection ; there 
 is an ideal form of every herb, flower, and tree : it 
 is that form to which every individual of the 
 species has a tendency to arrive, freed from the 
 influence of accident or disease. 
 
 1014 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Preface. 
 
 Second edition. 
 Language. 
 
 As to your employment of language, the great 
 aim is to be simple, and, in a measure, conversa- 
 tional ; and then let eloquence come of itself. If 
 most people talked as well in public as in private, 
 public meetings would be more interesting. 
 
 1015 Thomas Wentworth Higginson : 
 Women and the Alphabet. Study and Work. 
 
 Language ! the blood of the soul, sir, into which 
 our thoughts run, and out of which they grow. 
 
 1016 Holmes : The Professor at the 
 
 Breakfast Table, Ch. 2. 
 
 Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was 
 the immediate gift of God. 
 
 1017 Noah Webster: Preface to Dictionary . 
 
 Laughter. 
 
 The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for 
 treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole 
 life is already a treason and a stratagem. 
 
 1018 Carlyle: Sector Resartus, Bk i., Ch. 4. 
 There 1 s naught that's more ill-timed than ill- 
 
 timed laughter. 
 
 1019 Catullus: Carmina, xxxvii. (xxxix.), 16. 
 
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 As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the 
 laughter of a fool. 
 
 1020 Old Testament : Ecclesiastes vii. 6. 
 
 They laugh that win. 
 
 1021 Siiaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 A woman without a laugh in her ... is the 
 greatest bore in existence. 
 
 1022 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Sketches 
 
 and Travels in London. 
 
 The laughter of man is the contentment of God. 
 
 1023 John Weiss: 
 
 Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare. 
 
 Law. 
 
 Law is not law, if it violates the principles of 
 eternal justice. 
 
 1024 Lydia Maria Child. 1861. 
 
 The absolute justice of the State, enlightened by 
 the perfect reason of the State. That is law. 
 
 1025 Rufus Choate : Addresses and 
 Orations. Conservative Force of the Am. Bar. 
 
 Our human laws are but the copies , more or less 
 imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can 
 read them. Froude : 
 
 1026 Short Studies on Gt. Subjects. Calvinism. 
 
 Where law ends, tyranny begins. 
 
 1027 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 
 
 Case of Wilkes, Speech. Jan. 9, 1770. 
 
 No law can possibly meet the convenience of 
 every one : we must be satisfied if it be beneficial 
 on the whole and to the majority. 
 
 1028 Livy: Histories, xxxiv., 3. 
 
144 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 There is a higher law than the Constitution. 
 
 1029 William H. Seward: 
 
 Speech, March 11, 1850. 
 
 2d Clo. But is this » law" ? 
 
 1st Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crownerVquest law. 
 
 1030 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Lawyers. 
 
 The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your 
 estate from 3^0 ur enemies, and keeps it to himself. 
 
 1031 Lord Brougham. 
 
 The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. 
 
 1032 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer ; you 
 gave me nothing for -t. 
 
 1033 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer ? 
 Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his 
 cases, his tenures, and his tricks ? 
 
 1034 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Laziness. A 
 
 Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon 
 overtakes him. 
 
 1035 Benjamin Franklin : Poor RicharcVs Al. 
 
 Humanity is constitutionally lazy. 
 
 1036 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 Gold Foil. XV. Indolence and Industry. 
 
 Learning. 
 
 Learning hath its infancy when it is but begin- 
 ning and almost childish ; then its youth, when it 
 is luxuriant and juvenile ; then its strength of 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 145 
 
 years, when it is solid and reduced ; and, lastly, 
 its old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. 
 
 1037 Bacon: Essays. 
 
 Of Vicissitudes of Things. 
 
 It will, I believe, be found invariably true, that 
 learning was never decried by any learned man. 
 
 1038 Dr. Johnson: The Adventurer. No. 85. 
 
 Leisure. 
 
 Leisure is time for doing" something useful ; this 
 leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy 
 never; for, "A life of leisure and a life of lazi- 
 ness are two things." Benjamin Franklin : 
 
 1039 The Way to Wealth. 
 
 Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he 
 was at leisure, he replied, " God forbid that it 
 should ever befall me ! " Plutarch : 
 
 1040 Apophthegms of Kings and Great 
 
 Commanders . Dionysius . 
 Letters. 
 
 A letter is a conversation between the absent 
 and the present : its destiny is fleeting, and it 
 should pass away like the sound of the voice. 
 
 1041 Wilhelm Yon Humboldt : 
 Letters to a Female Friend. Yol. i. Xo. 9. 
 
 Libels. 
 
 Though some make light of libels, yet you may 
 see by them how the wind sits. As, take a straw, 
 and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that 
 which way the wind is, which you shall not do by 
 casting up a stone. More solid things do not show 
 the complexion of the time so well as ballads and 
 libels. 
 
 1042 John Selden: Table Talk. Libels. 
 
146 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Liberty, 
 
 The tree of liberty only grows when watered by 
 the blood of tyrants. 
 
 1043 Bertraxd Barer:* : 
 
 Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792. 
 
 My rigor relents : I pardon something to the 
 spirit of liberty. Burke : 
 
 104-1 Speech. On Conciliation with America. 
 
 Liberty is rendered eyen more precious by the 
 recollection of seryitude. 
 
 10-45 Cicero: Philippiea, iii., 14, 36. 
 
 Liberty is neyer cheap. It is made difficult, 
 because freedom is the accomplishment and per- 
 fectness of man. Fmersox : 
 
 1046 Miscellanies. The Fugitive Slave Law. 
 
 The sim of liberty is set ; yon must light up the 
 candle of industry and economy. 
 
 1047 Bexjamix Feaxklix : In Correspondence. 
 
 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be pur- 
 chased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid 
 it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others 
 may take : but as for me. give me liberty or give 
 me death ! 
 
 1048 Patrick Henry : Speech, March, 1775. 
 
 O Liberty ! Liberty ! how many crimes are 
 committed in thy name ! (1793). 
 
 1049 Madame Roland : 
 Macaulaii's Mirabeau. Edinburgh Bedew, 1832. 
 
 Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant 
 of rapid growth. 
 
 1050 George Washington: Political Maxims. 
 
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 God grants liberty only to those who love it, 
 and are always ready to guard and defend it. 
 
 1051 Daniel Webster: Speech, United 
 Slates Senate, 1833-34. Removal of the Deposits, 
 
 Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 
 
 1052 Ascribed to Thomas Jefferson : 
 Quoted by Wendell Phillip) s in his Speech, 
 11 Public Opinion," Jan. 28, 1852. * 
 
 Libraries. 
 
 The true university of these days is a collection 
 of books. Carlyle : 
 
 1053 Heroes and Hero Worship). 
 Let every man, if possible, gather some good 
 
 books under his roof, and obtain access for him- 
 self and family to some social library. Almost any 
 luxury should be sacrificed to this. 
 
 1054 William Ellery Channing : 
 Self-Culture. {Address, Boston, Mass., 1838.) 
 
 He that revels in a well-chosen library, has 
 innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. 
 
 1055 William Godwin : Tlie Enquirer. 
 
 Of an Early Taste for Reading. 
 Life. 
 
 O Life ! an age to the miserable, a moment to 
 the happy. 
 
 1056 Bacon : Moral and Historical Works. 
 
 Ornamenta Rationalia. 
 Life is not dated merely by years. Events are 
 sometimes the best calendars. 
 
 1057 Lord Beaconsfield : Yenetia, Bk. iii. 
 
 1 In a letter dated April 14, 1879, Mr. Phillips wrote : " l Eter- 
 nal vigilance is the price of liberty,' has heen attributed to 
 Jefferson ; but no one has yet found it in his works or else- 
 where." 
 
148 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 One life, — a little gleam of time between two 
 eternities . Carlyle : Heroes and Hero 
 
 1058 Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters. 
 Life is but another name for action ; and he who 
 
 is without opportunity exists, but does not live. 
 
 1059 George S. Hillard : Six Months in 
 
 Italy, Ch. 31. Concluding Remarks. 
 
 Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has its 
 defeats as well as its victories. 
 
 1060 Donn Piatt : Ihe Lone Grave of the 
 
 Shenandoah and Other Tales. 
 
 Life is a shuttle. 
 
 1061 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 O excellent! I love long life better than figs. 
 
 1062 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Light. 
 
 Light is the first of painters. There is no object 
 so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. 
 
 1063 Emerson: Essays. Nature. 
 Light, — God's eldest daughter. 
 
 1064 Thomas Fuller : The Holy and Pro- 
 
 fane States. The Holy State. Building. 
 
 He was a burning and a shining light. 
 
 1065 New Testament: Johny. 35. 
 
 Lightness. 
 
 This matter of lightness is the distinctive line 
 between savage and civilized bread. 
 
 1066 Harriet Beecher Stowe : 
 
 House and Home Tapers. 
 
 Likeness. 
 
 As like as one pease is to another. 
 
 1067 John Lyly: Euphues, p. 215. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 149 
 
 Lily. 
 
 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 
 they toil not, neither do they spin. 
 
 1068 New Testament: Matthew vi. 28. 
 
 Limb. 
 
 A bit of the wing, Roxy, or of the — under 
 limb ? 
 
 1069 Holmes: Elsie Vernier, Ch. 7. 
 
 Limbo. 
 
 The gate of Dante's Limbo is left ajar even for 
 the ancient philosophers to slip ont. 
 
 1070 Lowell : Among My Books. Dante. 
 
 Limitation. 
 
 We are under physiological and cerebral limita- 
 tion; limitations of association, want, condition. 
 
 1071 Horace Bushnell: Nature and the 
 
 Supernatural, p. 51. 
 
 In all well-instituted commonwealths care has 
 been taken to limit men's possessions. 
 
 1072 Swift : Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
 
 Limpness. 
 
 A kind providence furnishes the limpest person- 
 ality with -a little gum or starch in the form of 
 tradition. 
 
 1073 George Eliot: Midcllemarch, i., 25. 
 
 Line. 
 
 I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes 
 all summer. Grant : Despatch to Gen. Halleck, 
 
 1074 May 11, 1864. 
 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou 
 
 knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it ? 
 
 1075 Old Testament : Job xxxviii. 5. 
 
150 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Lineaments. 
 
 The lineaments of the body do disclose the dis- 
 position and inclination of the mind in general. 
 
 1076 Bacon: Advancement of Learning. 
 
 Linen. 
 
 In any case, let Thisby have clean linen. 
 
 1077 Shaks. : Mid. N. Bream, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 Let's go to that house, for the linen looks white, 
 
 and smells of lavender, and I long to lie in a pair 
 of sheets that smell so. 
 
 1078 Izaak Walton: Complete Angler, p. 77 . 
 
 Lionizing. 
 
 Can he do nothing for his Burns but lionize 
 him ? 
 
 1079 Carlyle: Past and Present, iv., 6. 
 
 Lion. 
 
 A living doo; is better than a dead lion. 
 
 1080 Old Testament : Ecelesiasles ix. -1. 
 To bring in, God shield us ! a lion among ladies, 
 
 is a most dreadful thing : for there is not a more 
 fearful wild-fowl than your lion, living ; and we 
 ought to look to it. 
 
 1081 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Lispers. 
 
 I remember a race of lispers, fine ])ersons, 
 who took an aversion to particular letters in our 
 language. 
 
 1082 Steele: Taller. Xo. 77. 
 
 Listening. 
 It takes ; 
 1083 Sir Arthur Helps : Brevia. 
 
 It takes a °Teat uian to make a good listener. 
 
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 Were we as eloquent as angels, we should 
 please some men, some women, and some children, 
 much more by listening than by talking. 
 
 1084 Coltox : Lacon. 
 
 Literature. 
 
 Literature is the thought of thinking: souls. 
 
 1085 Carlyle : Essays. Memoirs of the 
 Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Rev.) 
 
 All literature writes the character of the wise 
 man. 
 
 1086 Emerson : Essays. History. 
 
 Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the 
 grand line of demarcation between the human and 
 the animal kinodoms. 
 
 1087 William Godwin : The Enquirer. 
 
 Of an Early Taste for Reading. 
 
 Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, 
 should be a little ragged. 
 
 1088 Douglas Jerrold : Specimens of 
 
 Jer voids Wit. Literary Men. 
 
 We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. 
 
 1089 Sydney Smith: A Memoir of the 
 Rev. Sydney Smith, by Lady Holland, Ch. 2. 
 
 London. 
 
 London is the epitome of our times, and the 
 Rome of to-day. 
 
 1090 Emerson: English Trails. Result. 
 
 In the firm expectation that when London shall 
 be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and 
 Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and 
 nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, 
 
152 DICTIONARY OF PKOSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become 
 the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast 
 the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the 
 solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator 
 will be weighing: in the scales of some new and 
 now unimagined system of criticism the respective 
 merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their his- 
 torians. 
 
 1091 Shelley: Dedication to Peter Bell. 
 
 Loneliness. 
 
 The best loneliness is when no human eye has 
 rested on our face for a whole day. 
 
 1092 Auerbach : On the Heights. 
 
 (Bennett, Translator.} 
 Lord. 
 
 The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; 
 blessed be the name of the Lord. 
 
 1093 Old Testament: Job i. 21. 
 
 Loss. 
 
 No man can lose what he never had. 
 
 1094 Izaak Walton : The Comjjlete Angler, 
 
 Pt. i., Ch. 5. 
 Lot. 
 
 Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast. 
 
 1095 Marcus Aukelius : Meditations, vi. 39. 
 
 Love. 
 
 Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it 
 the world is to be cured of sin. 
 
 1096 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Where there is much love, there is usually little 
 boldness. Cervantes: Don Quixote, ii., 65. 
 
 1097 {Burke's Trans.) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 1^3 
 
 Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of 
 the universe. William Ellery Cii axxixg: 
 
 1098 Note Book. Lovi . 
 
 Love, like death, a universal leveller of man- 
 kind. CONGBEVE: 
 
 1099 The Double-Dealer, Act ii., Sc. 8. 
 
 Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as 
 electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its 
 power by a subtle presence. 
 
 1100 George Eliot: Adam Bale, Ch. 33. 
 
 Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of 
 
 friendship, as all other things seem symbols of 
 
 love. Emerson : 
 
 1101 Society and Solitude. Domestic Life. 
 
 Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, 
 strong, patieut, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, 
 manly, and never seeking her own ; for where- 
 soever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth 
 from love. Thomas a Kempis : 
 
 1102 Imitation of Christ. (Benham, Trans.) 
 
 A man who does not love sincerely sets his face 
 against the distinguishing mark between a friend 
 and a flatterer. Le Sage : Gil Bias, 
 
 1103 Bk. vii., Ch. 4. {Smollett, Translator.) 
 
 Love will make men dare to die for their be- 
 loved — love alone ; and women as well as men. 
 110-1 Plato: The Symposium. I. 473. 
 
 (Jowcli, Translator.) 
 *Ros. But are you so much in love as your 
 rhymes speak ? 
 
 Orl. Neither rhyme nor reason can express 
 how much. 
 
 1105 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
154 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 No sooner met but they looked, no sooner 
 looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they 
 sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one an- 
 other the reason, no sooner knew the reason but 
 they sought the remedy. 
 
 1106 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 It is best to love wisely, no doubt ; but to love 
 foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. 
 
 1107 Thackeray: Pendennis, Ch. 6. 
 
 Lovers. 
 
 All mankind love a lover. 
 
 1108 Emerson: Essays. Of Love. 
 It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, 
 
 that he thinks no evil of the object loved. 
 
 1109 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iv., Ch. 2. 
 It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the 
 
 propositions of a lover. 
 
 1110 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 When a man is in love with one woman in a 
 family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of 
 every person connected with it. 
 
 1111 Thackeray: The Virginians, Ch. 20. 
 
 Luck. 
 
 Luck, mere luck, may make even madness wis- 
 dom. Douglas Jerrold : 
 
 1112 Specimens of Jerrold/ s Wit. Luck. 
 Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, 
 
 energetic character, and conscientious observance 
 of duty. * 
 
 1113 Lowell: Among My Books . Wordsworth. 
 
 This is the third time ; I hope good luck lies in 
 odd numbers. 
 
 1114 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
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 Loyalty. 
 
 We join ourselves to no ])arty that does not carry 
 the American flag, and keep step to the music of 
 the Union. Rufus Choate : Letter, Oct. 1, 1855, 
 
 1115 To the Whig Convention Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign 
 nations, may she always be in the right ; but our 
 country, right or wrong. 
 
 1116 Stephen Decatur : Toast, 
 
 Norfolk, Va., April, 1846. 
 We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our 
 fortunes, and our sacred honor. 
 
 1117 Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 Luxury. 
 
 What is luxury ? What is comfort for one per- 
 son is luxury to another. What was luxury }~ester- 
 day is comfort to-day. 
 
 1118 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and 
 may be taken in a good -as in a bad sense. 
 
 1119 Hume: Essays. XXIV. 
 
 Of Refinement in the Arts. 
 Lying. 
 
 Nothing is more criminal, mean, or ridiculous, 
 than lying. It is the production either of malice, 
 cowardice, or vanity ; but it generally misses of 
 its aim in every one of these views ; for lies are 
 always detected sooner or later. 
 
 1120 Lord Chesterfield: 
 
 Advice to His Son. Lying. 
 
 The most mischievous liars are those who keep 
 sliding; on the ver«;e of truth. 
 
 1121 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. 
 
156 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Lord, Lord, how the world is given to lying ! I 
 grant you I was down, and out of breath ; and so 
 was he : but we rose both at an instant, and fought 
 a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 
 
 1122 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sec. 4. 
 
 These lies are like the father. that begets them ; 
 gross as a mountain, open, palpable. 
 
 1123 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 'Tis as easy as lying. 
 
 1124 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Shall I tell you a lie ? ■ I do despise a liar, as I 
 do despise one that is false ; or as I despise one 
 that is not true. 
 
 1125 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act L, Sc. 1. 
 
 There is no lie that many men will not believe ; 
 there is no man who does not believe many lies ; 
 and there is no man who believes only lies. 
 
 1126 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. 
 Thoughts. Crystals from a Cavern. II. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maceration. 
 
 For about two centuries the hideous maceration 
 of the body was regarded as the highest proof of 
 excellence. 
 
 1127 Lecky: European Morals, iii., 14. 
 
 Machinations. 
 
 We have seen the best of our time : Machi- 
 nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous 
 disorders, follow us dis quietly to our graves. 
 
 1128 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
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 Machine, Machinery. 
 
 The human body, like all living bodies, is a 
 machine, all the operations of which will, sooner 
 or later, be explained on physical principles. 
 
 1129 Huxley: Lay Sermons, p. 339. 
 The machinery, Madame, is a term invented by 
 
 the critics, to signify that part which the Deities, 
 Angels, or Demons are made to act in a poem. 
 
 1130 Pope : Letter prefixed to Rape of the Loch. 
 Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this 
 
 machine is to him, Hamlet. 
 
 1131 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Madness. 
 
 Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. 
 
 1132 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 This is very midsummer madness. 
 
 1133 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Magician. 
 
 I have, since I was three years old, conversed 
 with a magician, most profound in this art, and 
 yet not damnable. 
 
 1134 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Magistracy. 
 
 To execute laws is a royal office ; to execute 
 orders is not to be a king. However, a political 
 executive magistracy, though merely such, is a 
 great trust. Burke: 
 
 1135 Reflections on the Rev. in France. 
 It is said Labor in thy vocation : which is as 
 
 much to say, as, — let the magistrates be laboring 
 
 ■zoo 
 
 men; and therefore should we be magistrates. 
 
 1136 Shaks. : 2 Henry VL, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
158 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Magnificence. 
 
 Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap 
 cannot be magnificent. 
 
 1137 Dr. Johnson: Works. V. 458. 
 
 (Oxford edition, 1825.) 
 
 Majorities and Minorities. 
 
 If by the mere force of numbers a majority 
 should deprive a minority of any clearly written 
 constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of 
 view, justify revolution — certainly would if such 
 a right were a vital one. Lincoln : 
 
 1138 First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. 
 
 Majority. 
 
 One on God's side is a majority. 
 
 1139 Wendell Phillips: Speech, Nov. 1, 1859. 
 
 Malady. 
 
 It is the disease of not listening, the malady of 
 not marking, that I am troubled withal. 
 
 1140 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Malcontents. 
 
 Thou art the Mars of malcontents. 
 
 1141 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Malefactor. 
 
 Benefactors ? Well, what benefactors are they ? 
 are they not malefactors ? 
 
 1142 Shaks.: M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Malice. 
 
 In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or 
 ill-will to any human being, and even compas- 
 sionating those who hold in bondage their fellow- 
 men, not knowing what they do. 
 
 1143 John Quincy Adams: 
 Letter to A. Bronson, July 30, 1838. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 159 
 
 You speak unskilfully ; or, if your knowledge 
 be more, it is much darkened in your malice. 
 
 1144 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with 
 wit. 
 
 1145 Shaks. : TroiL and Cress,, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Mammonism, 
 
 Alas ! If Hero-worship become Dilettantism, 
 and all except Mammonism be a vain grimace, 
 how much on this most earnest Earth has gone 
 and is ever more going to fatal destruction. 
 
 1146 Carlyle: Past and Present, ii. 
 
 Man. 
 
 When the Bible says " Man," it does not mean 
 this man or that man ; but Humanity ! 
 
 1147 Henry W. Bellows : Man and 
 
 Mankind. Old and New, Vol. L, p. 456. 
 
 In one completed man there are the forces of 
 many men. Self-control is self -completion. 
 
 1148 Bulwer-Lytton : Caxloniana. 
 
 Essay xx. On Self- Control. 
 
 We should never forget that God has evidently 
 related man to nature as he has, that, by his in- 
 vestigations and labors, he may become intellec- 
 tually stronger and greater. Man was not made 
 for nature, but nature was made for man. 
 
 1149 George C. Lorimer: Christianity in 
 the Nineteenth Century. The Divine and Human. 
 
 God made him, and therefore let him pass for a 
 man. 
 
 1150 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 2. 
 
160 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Manhood. 
 
 Power, in its quality and degree, is the measure 
 of manhood. J. G. Holland: 
 
 1151 Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. 
 
 Which makes much against my manhood, if I 
 should take from another's pocket, to put into 
 mine. 
 
 1152 Shaks. : Henry V. 9 Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Mankind. 
 
 The history of mankind is little else than a nar- 
 rative of designs which have failed, and hopes 
 that have been disappointed. 
 
 1153 Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 398. 
 
 (Oxford edition, 1825.) 
 
 The common curse of mankind, folly and igno- 
 rance, be thine in great revenue ! 
 
 1154 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Manners. 
 
 Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its 
 way through the world. Like a great rough 
 diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way 
 of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. 
 
 1155 Lord Chesterfield: 
 Letter to His Son, July 1, 1748. 
 
 Intercourse with women is the element of good 
 manners. Goethe: 
 
 1156 Elective Affinities. 11. 5. (Bohn edition.) 
 
 March. 
 
 Cces. The ides of March are come. 
 Sooth. Ay, Ccesar ; but not gone. 
 
 1157 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
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 Marriage. 
 
 When it shall please God to bring thee to man's 
 estate, use great providence and circumspection in 
 choosing thy wife ; for thence will spring all thy 
 future good or evil : and it is an action of life, like 
 unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err 
 but once. William Lord Blrghley : 
 
 1158 Ten Precepts to His Son. 
 
 Marriage, considered merely in its financial and 
 business relations, may be regarded as a perma- 
 nent co-partnership. 
 
 1159 Thomas Went worth Higginson: 
 
 Women and the Alphabet. The Home. 
 
 Marriage is evidently the dictate of nature ; men 
 and women are made to be companions of each 
 other, and therefore I cannot be persuaded but that 
 marriage is one of the means of happiness. 
 
 1160 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 28. 
 
 After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a 
 big, sometimes a little one ; but it comes sooner or 
 later, and must be tided over by both parties if 
 they desire the rest of their lives to go with the 
 current. Rudyard Kipling : 
 
 1161 Plain Tales from the Hills. 
 
 To church in the morning, and there saw a wed- 
 ding in the church, which I have not seen many 
 a day; and the young people so merry one with 
 another ! and strange to see what delight we 
 married people have to see these poor fools de- 
 coyed into our condition, every man and woman 
 gazing and smiling at them. 
 
 1162 Pepvs: Diary, Dec. 25, 1665. 
 
162 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Martyrdom. 
 
 His wife, with nine small children and one at 
 the breast, following him to the stake. 
 
 1163 Martyrdom of John Rogers, Burned at 
 
 Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1551. 
 Matrimony. 
 
 Matrimony has made you eloquent in love. 
 
 1161 Congreve:"!Z%c Way of the World, 
 
 Act ii., Sc. 8. 
 
 Matrimony — the high sea for which no com- 
 pass has yet been invented. 
 
 1165 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 
 
 Musical Notes from Paris, 
 Matter. 
 
 How great a matter a little fire kindleth ! 
 
 1166 New Testament: James iii. 5. 
 
 Maxims. 
 
 Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to 
 actions ; they do not enlighten, but they guide and 
 direct, and, although themselves blind, arc pro- 
 tective. Joubert : Pensees. No. 138. 
 
 1167 (Attwell, Translator.} 
 
 Meanness. 
 
 An infallible characteristic of meanness is 
 cruelty. Dr. Johnson: Works. VI. 176. 
 
 1168 (Oxford edition, 1825.) 
 
 Measures. 
 
 Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 
 
 1169 Goldsmith: The Good- Natured Man, 
 
 Act ii. 
 Meat. 
 
 This dish of meat is too good for any but an- 
 glers, or very honest men. 
 
 1170 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 163 
 
 Medicine. 
 
 If the rascal have not given me medicines to 
 make me love him, I'll be hanged. 
 
 1171 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Meditation. 
 
 The art of meditation may be exercised at all 
 hours, and in all places ; and men of genius, in 
 their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turn- 
 ing the eye of the mind inwards, can form an 
 artificial solitude ; retired amidst a crowd, calm 
 amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly. 
 
 1172 Isaac Disraeli : Literary Character, 
 
 Ch. 11. 
 
 Meekness. 
 
 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the 
 earth. 
 
 1173 New Testament : MatlheivY.5. 
 
 Melancholy. 
 
 Fear and sorrow are the true characters and in- 
 separable companions of most melancholy. 
 
 1174 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, 
 
 Pt. i., Sec. 1, Mem. 3, Subs. 2. 
 
 I can suck melancholy out of a song. 
 
 1175 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Melodrama. 
 
 When I use the term melodrama, I mean by 
 it that which mimics the tragic, but falls short of 
 it; the tragic, imitated, but so environed, that 
 it loses dignity and has something of the inflated 
 and grotesque. Ouida : Critical Studies. 
 
 1176 The Italian Novels of Marion Crawford. 
 
164 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Memory. 
 
 Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory 
 writes her lightbeam characters, and makes them 
 legible ; were it all light, nothing conld be read 
 t-here, any more than if it were all darkness. 
 
 1177 Carjlyle : Essays. On History Again. 
 (Eraser's Magazine. Vol. yii. No. xli. 1833.) 
 
 The memory will not be ruled as to what it 
 shall bind and what it shall loose. 
 
 1178 W. D. Ho wells: Literary Friends and 
 Acquaintance. The White Mr. Longfellow. 
 
 The true art of memory is the art of attention. 
 
 1179 Dr. Johnson: The Idler. No. 74. 
 
 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense 
 of his memory. 
 
 1180 Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk. iii., Ch. 11. 
 
 Grant but memory to us, and we can lose noth- 
 ing by death. Whittier: 
 
 1181 My Summer with Dr. Singleton, Ch. 5. 
 
 Mercy. 
 
 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain 
 mercy. 
 
 1182 New Testament: Matthew v. 7. 
 
 Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 
 
 1183 Shaks. : Titus Andronicus, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Merit. 
 
 The assumption of merit is easier, less embarras- 
 sing, and more effectual than the positive attain- 
 ment of it. 
 
 1184 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 21. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 165 
 
 Merriment. 
 
 Where be your gibes now ; your gambols, your 
 songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont 
 to set the table on a roar. 
 
 1185 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 
 
 experience to make me sad. 
 
 1186 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Metaphors. 
 
 I do not object to these metaphors, I believe in 
 metaphors. I go the length of holding that you 
 never get nearer to truth than in a metaphor ; but 
 you have not told this man the whole truth about 
 your metaphor, nor have you touched his soul or 
 his affections with what lies beneath that metaphor ; 
 and it falls upon his ear as a tale he has heard a 
 thousand times before. 
 
 1187 Henry Drummond : The New Evangelism. 
 
 Method. 
 
 Dispatch is the soul of business ; and nothing 
 contributes more to dispatch than method. Lay 
 down a method for everything, and stick to it 
 inviolably, as far as unexpected incidents may 
 allow. 
 
 1188 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to his Son. 
 
 London, Feb. 5, 1750. 
 Milk. 
 
 Such as have need of milk, and not of strong 
 meat. 
 
 1189 New Testament : Hebrews v. 12. 
 
 Millstone. 
 
 It were better for him that a millstone were 
 hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. 
 
 1190 New Testament: Luke xvii. 2. 
 
166 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Mind. 
 
 It is mind, after all, which does the work of the 
 world, so that the more there is of mind, the more 
 work will be accomplished. 
 
 1191 William Ellery Chaining: Self- 
 Cidture. {Boston, Mass., September, 1838.) 
 
 Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so 
 awful as that of the human mind in ruins. 
 
 1192 Scrope Dayies : Letter to Thomas Raikes. 
 The mind can weaYe itself warmly in the cocoon 
 
 of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. 
 
 1193 Lowell: My Study Windows. On a 
 
 Certain Condescension in Foreigners. 
 Miracles. 
 
 A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process 
 of nature. What distinguishes a miracle from a 
 process of nature is simply that it is not repeated ; 
 it is extraordinary, and for that reason attracts 
 attention. 
 
 1194 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life, 
 Looking for a comprehensiYe description of 
 
 miracles, we might say that they constitute a lan- 
 guage of heaYen embodied in material signs, by 
 which communication is established between the 
 Deity and man, outside the daily course of nature 
 and experience. Gladstone : 
 
 1195 Later Gleanings. Robert Elsmere. 
 
 Mirth. 
 
 Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks 
 through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a 
 moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight 
 in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpet- 
 ual serenity. 
 
 1196 Addison: The Spectator. No. 381. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 161 
 
 From the crown of his head to the sole of his 
 foot, he is all mirth ; he hath twice or thrice cut 
 Cupid's bow string, and the little hangman dare 
 not shoot at him ; he hath a heart as sound as a 
 bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his 
 heart thinks, his tongue speaks. 
 
 1197 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Miser. 
 
 Punishment of a miser, — to pay the drafts of 
 his heir in his tomb. Hawthorne : 
 
 1198 American Note-Books. July 10, 1838. 
 
 The miser is as much without what he has as 
 what he has not. 
 
 1199 Publius Syrus: Maxim 480. 
 
 Misery. 
 
 Misery acquaints a man with strange bed- 
 fellows. 
 
 1200 Shaks. : Tempest, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Misfortune. 
 
 In misfortune, even to smile is to offend. 
 
 1201 Bacon: Ornamenta Rational ia. 
 
 Misfortunes have their dignity and their re- 
 deeming power. George S. Millard : 
 
 1202 Six Months in Italy, Ch. 8. Rome. 
 
 Our greatest misfortunes come to us from our- 
 selves. ^ Rousseau: 
 
 1203 Emile. (Eleanor Worthington, Trans.) 
 
 In one's own misfortunes one should so bear 
 oneself as to give the rein to sorrow only as far as 
 is necessary, not as far as is customary. 
 
 1204 Seneca: De Tranquillitate Animi, xv., G, 
 
168 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Mob. 
 
 The mob have no judgment, no discretion, no 
 discrimination, no consistency; and it has always 
 been the opinion of men of sense that popular 
 movements must be acquiesced in, but not always 
 commended. 
 
 1205 Cicero : Pro Plancio, iv., 9. 
 
 No nation can last which has made a mob of 
 itself, however generous at heart. Buskin : 
 
 1206 Sesame and Lilies. Of Kings'' Treasuries. 
 
 Moderation, 
 
 Moderation is the silken string running through 
 the pearl chain of all virtues. Bishop Hall: 
 
 1207 Christian Moderation, Introduction. 
 
 Modesty. 
 
 Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not 
 enriched with nobler virtues. Goldsmith : 
 
 1208 She Stopjis to Conquer, Act i. 
 
 Monarchy. 
 
 The trappings of a monarchy would set up an 
 ordinary commonwealth. Dr. Johnson : 
 
 1209 Lives of the Poets. Milton. 
 
 Monasticism. 
 
 Three virtues constituted the sum of the Bene- 
 dictine discipline. Silence with solitude and 
 seclusion, humility, obedience, which in the strong 
 language of its laws, extended to impossibilities. 
 All is thus concentrated on self. It was the man 
 isolated from his kind, who was to rise to a lonely 
 perfection. Milman : 
 
 1210 History of Latin Christianity ,Y 'ol . i., Ch. 6. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PBOSE QUOTATIONS. J 69 
 
 Money. 
 
 Character is money; and according as the mail 
 earns or spends the money, money in turn be- 
 comes character. 
 
 1211 Bulwer-Lytton : Oaxloniana. 
 Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. 
 
 Money, Paul, can do anything. Dickens : 
 
 1212 Dombey and Son, Ch. 8. 
 
 Money can beget money, and its offspring can 
 beget more, and so on. 
 
 1213 Benjamin Franklin: Letters. 
 
 Advice to a Young Tradesman. 
 The love of money is the root of all evil. 
 
 1214 New Testament: 1 Timothy vi. 10. 
 
 Put money in thy purse Fill thy purse 
 
 with money. 
 
 1215 Shaks. : Othello, Acti., Sc. 3. 
 
 Monotony. 
 
 The monotony of sunshine is like any other 
 monotony: it tends to lull the mind into a con- 
 dition of fixed routine, in which activity is still 
 possible, yet repeats itself as the days do. 
 
 1216 Hamerton: The Sylvan Year, July. 
 
 Monuments. 
 
 If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb 
 ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument 
 than the bell rings and the widow weeps. . . . 
 An hour in clamor, and a quarter in rheum. 
 
 1217 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Monuments and eulogy belong to the dead. 
 
 1218 Daniel Webster: Address, Charles- 
 
 town, Mass., June 17, 1825. 
 
170 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Moods. 
 
 Nature has no moods. They belong to man 
 
 alone. Auerbach : 
 
 1219 On the Heights. {Bennett, Translator.} 
 
 Moonlight. 
 
 Moonlight is sculpture. 
 
 1220 Hawthorne: American Note- Books, 1838. 
 
 Morality. 
 
 Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far 
 as it goes ; but the difficulty is, it does not go far 
 enough. 
 
 1221 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 
 
 His morality is of the most primitive kind ; or 
 rather, he has none whatever, no more than has a 
 South- Sea islander lying in the sun under a cocoa- 
 nut tree whilst the surf bathes his naked limbs. 
 
 1222 Ouida : Critical Studies. 
 
 Qabriele DAnnunzio. 
 There are many religions, but there is only one 
 morality. Ruskin : Lectures in Art. 
 
 1223 l Lecture ii., Sec. 37. 
 
 Moral Suasion, 
 
 I believe in moral suasion. The age of bullets 
 is over. The age of ideas is come. I think that 
 is the rule of our age. Wendell Phillips : 
 
 1224 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. 
 
 Morning. 
 
 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell 
 in the uttermost parts of the sea ; even there shall 
 thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold 
 me. 
 
 1225 Old Testament: Psalm cxxxix. 9, 10. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 171 
 
 Mother, Motherhood. 
 
 You mother are not responsible to set the whole 
 world right ; you are responsible only to make one 
 pure, sacred, and divine household. 
 
 1226 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 Where there is a mother in the house, matters 
 speed well. A. Bronson Alcott : 
 
 1227 Table Talk. IV. Nurture. Mothers. 
 
 No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, 
 so enduring, so important for all time, as the 
 making of character in a child. 
 
 1228 Charlotte Cushman : Letters and 
 
 Memories of her Life, Ch. 8. 
 Motion. 
 
 Another insuperable difficulty presents itself 
 when we contemplate the transfer of motion. 
 Habit blinds us to the marvellousness of this 
 phenomenon. Familiar with the fact from child- 
 hood, we see nothing remarkable in the ability of 
 a moving thing to generate movement in a thing 
 that is stationary. Herbert Spencer : 
 
 1229 Synthetic Philosophy . First Principles. 
 
 Motive. 
 
 What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 
 
 1230 George Eliot : Daniel Deronda, 
 
 Bk. viii., Ch. 65. 
 
 However brilliant an action, it should not be 
 
 esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. 
 
 1231 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections; or, 
 
 Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 160. 
 
 Mountains. 
 
 They came to the Delectable Mountains. 
 
 1232 Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 1. 
 
172 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may 
 touch ; they may keep together some way up ; but 
 at length they part company, and rise into indi- 
 vidual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. 
 
 1233 J. C. and A. W. Hare : Guesses at Truth. 
 
 Mountebanks, 
 
 Surely, as there are mountebanks for the natural 
 body, so there are mountebanks for the politic 
 body; men that undertake great cures, and per- 
 haps have been lucky in two or three experiments, 
 but want the grounds of science, and therefore 
 cannot hold out. 
 
 1234 Bacon: Essays. Of Boldness. 
 
 Mourning. 
 
 It is better to go to the house of mourning than 
 to go to the house of feasting. 
 
 1235 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 2. 
 
 Murder. 
 
 Murder will out. 
 
 1236 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. L, Bk. iii. 
 
 Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run 
 in families. George Henry Lewes : 
 
 1237 Physiology of Common Life, Ch. 12. 
 
 Every unpunished murder takes away some- 
 thing from the security of every man's life. 
 
 1238 Daniel Webster: Argument, Salem, 
 1830. The Murder of Capt. Joseph White. 
 
 Music. 
 
 Music is the poor man's Parnassus. 
 
 1239 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Poetry and Imagination. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 173 
 
 Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, 
 is poetry ; music without the idea is simply music ; 
 the idea without the music is prose from its very 
 definiteness. 
 
 1240 Edgar Allan Poe: Letter to Mr 
 
 It will discourse most eloquent music. 
 
 1241 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 Nothing is more irritatino- to the musical tern- 
 
 perament than to hear the people, who are always 
 inspired with an insane desire to make a joyful 
 noise, get hold of a really fine tune and make it 
 afterward hateful to delicate ears. 
 
 1242 Dr. John Watson (<< Ian Maclaren"): 
 
 Church Folks, Ch. 6. 
 
 Musing. 
 
 I like to go into the garden these warm latter 
 days, and muse. To muse is to sit in the sun, and 
 not think of anything. 
 
 1243 Charles Dudley Warner: 
 
 My Summer in a Garden. Seventeenth Week. 
 
 Mystery. 
 
 The mystery of mysteries is to view machines 
 making machines. 
 
 1244 Disraeli {Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Coningsby, Bk. iv., Ch. 2. 
 
 N. 
 Nail. 
 
 You have there hit the nail on the head. 
 
 1245 Rabelais: Works, Bk. iii., Ch. 34. 
 
 Names. 
 
 I agree with you entirely in condemning the 
 mania of giving names to objects of any kind after 
 
i -= ::::.:: ;>f prosb quotatioks. 
 
 t_ > still living. Death alone can seal the title 
 «f any man to Ms honor, by putting it out of his 
 power to forfeit it. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1 tier to Dr. Benjamin Rush. 
 
 I r : rliness of Bunyan's names and the 
 
 sverj gss of his scenery, toe, put us off our 
 
 guard* and we soon find ourselves on as easy a 
 
 footinsr with his allegorical beings as we might 
 
 r . A 3i _ Socrates in a dream. 
 
 1247 ] . mes i . — zll Lowell : 
 
 A long My Books. Spenser. 
 
 7. 7.- ..r .:as noticed Milton's fondness of son- 
 orous proper names, which have not only an ac- 
 qiiired ima_ value by association, and so 
 
 sea '€ : -:en our poetic sensibilities, but have 
 
 like merely musical sagnifieance. 
 
 li^-S Fames Russeix Lowell: 
 
 Among My Books. Milton. 
 
 I cannot tell what the k ms his name is. 
 ii±c Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act in., Sc. 2. 
 
 N = :i : :: s 
 
 I : • ; :t : :: i . rriotism are reciprocal. This 
 
 is the road that all great nations have trod. 
 
 1 . : k as ] [ Aua : us : Speech, Dec. 1811. 
 
 Z:\':~\ :::.:'.'- :n." ::::._ ::::::_::::::: — . ":".;: it is 
 institutions alone that can create a nation. 
 
 1251 Disraeli Eakl )fI ea : -:eld) : 
 
 \. >:ch. Manchester, 1866. 
 
 _r> nation y however powerful, any more than an 
 individual,, can be unjust with impunity. Sooner 
 
d: prose quotati 
 
 in the besinnin<r. will find occasion phrsicallv to 
 
 - 
 
 infli its - utenee ou the unjv s 
 
 _ _ Thomas Jefft - 
 
 tar to James Jiadison. 
 ire- 
 There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take 
 her as you will. The essence of poetry comes 
 breath in ir to a mind that feels frtmi rovinee 
 
 of her empire, ilyle : Thomas Carlyle* 
 
 F J F rs, bg Frot 
 
 X store repairs her rava^; cs, — repairs them 
 with her sunshine and with human labor. 
 
 1 : Eliot : Ike Mill on the Floss* 
 
 Bk. vii. Conclusion- 
 
 10 s] rndthrift, but takes the shor 
 way to her ends 
 
 1252 mxrs-»> 
 
 X a tore- and truth are one. and immutable, and 
 yiarable as beauty and k 
 
 Mrs jhs >i Sketches of Art* 
 Literature* and Character* Pt. i .,S 
 
 Nature seems to hare been created to inspire 
 feeling. - Starr Kih 
 
 1257 The H kite Hills. The Androscoggin Talley. 
 
 Nature 's above rt, 
 
 1258 Sbaks King Lear* Act iv. . Sc 
 
 To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. 
 Si UBS Hamlet, Act iii - 
 
 I hare thought some of Nature's journeymen had 
 made men and not made them well, they imitated 
 humanity so abominably. 
 
 5. : Hamlet* Act iii - 
 
176 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 This talk of subduing Nature is pretty much 
 nonsense. I do not intend to surrender in the 
 midst of the summer campaign, yet I cannot but 
 think how much more peaceful my relations would 
 now be with the primal forces, if I had let Nature 
 make the garden according to her own notion. 
 
 1261 Charles Dudley Warner: 
 My Summer in a Garden. Seventh Week. 
 
 Navigators. 
 
 The winds are always on the side of the ablest 
 navigators. Edward Gibbon : 
 
 1262 Decline and Fall of the Boman Empire. 
 
 Necessity. 
 
 Make a virtue of necessity. 
 
 1263 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy ', 
 
 Pt. iii., Sec. iii., Mem. 14, Subs. 1. 
 Necessity urges desperate measures. 
 
 1264 Cervantes: Don Quixote, 
 
 Pt. L, Bk. iii., Ch. 23. 
 
 Necessity has no law. I know some attorneys 
 of the name. Benjamin Franklin : 
 
 1265 Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Necessity is the argument of tyrants ; it is the 
 creed of slaves. 
 
 1266 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 
 
 Speech on the Indian Bill, Nov., 1783. 
 Necessity, my friend, is the mother of courage, 
 as of invention. Walter Scott: 
 
 1267 Quentin Durward, Ch. 23. 
 
 As if we were villains by necessity ; fools by 
 heavenly compulsion. 
 
 1268 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 177 
 
 Negligence 
 
 A little neglect may breed great mischief. For 
 want of a nail the shoe was Lost"; for want of a 
 shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a h< 
 the rider was lost, being- overtaken and slain by 
 the enemy : all for want of a little rare about a 
 horse -shoe nail. 
 
 1269 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Neighbor 
 
 Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as 
 ourself ; modern society acknowledges no neigh- 
 bor. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 1270 Sybil, Bk. ii., Ch. 5. 
 
 Love thy neighbor as thyself. 
 
 1271 New Testament: Matthew xix. 19. 
 
 News. 
 
 Tell him, there's a post come from my master, 
 with his horn full of news. 
 
 1272 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 There's villanous news abroad. 
 
 1273 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV.. Act ii., Sc. -i 
 
 Newspapers. 
 
 Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the com- 
 mon people. That endless book, the newspaper, 
 is our national glory. 
 
 1274 Hexrv Ward Beechek : 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pirfpii. The Press. 
 
 Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one 
 ever lays one down without a feeling of disap- 
 pointment. 
 
 1275 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 
 
 1> Thoughts on Books and Reading. 
 
178 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The newspapers ! Sir, the}^ are the most vil- 
 lanous, licentious, abominable, infernal — Not 
 that I ever read them ! No, I make it a rule never 
 to look into a newspaper. Sheridan : 
 
 1276 The Critic, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Nicknames. 
 
 A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil 
 can throw at a man, Hazlitt : 
 
 1277 Political Essays. On Court Influence. 
 
 Nicknames and whippings, when they are once 
 laid on, no one has discovered how to take off. 
 
 1278 L an dor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Peter leopold and President Bit Paty. 
 Night. 
 
 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto 
 night showeth knowledge. 
 
 1279 Old Testament : Psalm xix. 2. 
 
 Nobility. 
 
 Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry; 
 and he that is not industrious envieth him that is. 
 Besides, noble persons cannot go much higher; 
 and he that standeth at a stay when others rise 
 can hardly avoid motions of envy. 
 
 1280 Bacon: Essays. Of Nobility. 
 
 Noses, 
 
 And hold one another's noses to the grindstone 
 hard. Burton : 
 
 1281 Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. iii., Sec. i. 
 
 Nothingness. 
 
 Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also 
 nothing passes away into non-existence. 
 
 1282 Marcus Aurelius : Quod sibi, etc., iv., 4. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 179 
 
 Notoriety. 
 
 He who has once become notorious in the busy 
 centres of life, is not permitted even to die in 
 silence and obscurity. 
 
 1283 Cicero : Pro Quinlio, xv., 50. 
 The more you are talked about, the less power- 
 ful you are. 
 
 1284 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Endymion, Ch. 36.. 
 Novelty. 
 
 New things, like strangers, are more admired 
 and less favored. 
 
 1285 Bacon : Ornamenla Bationalia, 
 
 Number. 
 
 Number itself importeth not much in armies, 
 where the people are of weak courage ; for (as 
 Virgil says) it never troubles a wolf how many 
 the sheep be. 
 
 1286 Bacon : Ornamenta Bationalia. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oaths. 
 
 Good men should seem to offer their character 
 as security rather than their oath. 
 
 1287 Isocrates: Ad Demonicum, iv., 22. 
 
 (Stephens, p. 6, Z>.) 
 
 For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, 
 with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, 
 gives manhood more approbation than ever proof 
 itself would have earned him. 
 
 1288 Siiaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's 
 chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; 
 
180 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, 
 dropped a tear uj)on the word, and blotted it out 
 forever. 
 
 1289 Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy, 
 
 Vol. vi.. Ch. 8. (Original Edition.) 
 
 Obduracy. 
 
 By this hand, thou think* st me as far in the 
 devil's book, as thou, and Falstaff , for obduracy 
 and persistency. 
 
 1290 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Obedience. 
 
 Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelli- 
 gence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you 
 will understand him. 
 
 1291 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 
 II. The Withheld Completions of life. 
 
 Let thy chilcVs first lesson be obedience, and the 
 second will be what thou wilt. 
 
 1292 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 THien men have learnt to reverence a life of 
 passive unreasoning obedience as the highest type 
 of perfection, the enthusiasm and passion of free- 
 dom necessarily decline. 
 
 1293 Lecky: European Morals, Ch. 2. 
 
 Obligation. 
 
 The very notion of virtue implies the notion of 
 obligation . D. Stewart: 
 
 1294 Outlines of Moral Philosojihy, Ch. 6. 
 
 Obliquity. 
 
 I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. 
 
 1295 Lamb : All Fools' 1 Day. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 181 
 
 Obscurity. 
 
 He is happiest of whom the world says least, 
 good or bad. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1296 Letter to John Adams, 1786. 
 
 Observation. 
 
 By my penny of observation. 
 
 1297 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Occasion. 
 
 For occasion hath all her hair on her forehead ; 
 when she is past, you may not recall her. She hath 
 no tuft whereby you can lay hold on her, for she 
 is bald on the hinder part of her head, and never 
 returneth again. Rabelais : Gargantua, 
 
 1298 Bk. i., Ch. 37. (Urquhart and Motteux, 
 
 Translators.) 
 Occupation. 
 
 A mind without occupation is like a cat without 
 a ball of yarn. 
 
 1299 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : 
 Eric; or, The Fall of a Crown, Act L, Sc. 1. 
 
 Every one has a natural right to choose that 
 vocation in life which he thinks most likely to 
 give him comfortable subsistence. 
 
 1300 Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 Thoughts on Lotteries, 1826. 
 Ocean. 
 
 The sleeping ocean lay like a waving and glit- 
 tering mirror, smooth and polished on its surface. 
 
 1301 Jas. Fenimore Cooper: The Red Rover. 
 
 The sea drowns out humanity and time : it has 
 no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity, 
 and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever 
 and ever. Holmes : 
 
 1302 The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 11. 
 
182 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I am happy in contemplating the peace, pros- 
 perity, liberty, and safety of my country, and es- 
 pecially the wide ocean, the barrier of all these. 
 
 1303 Thomas Jefferson : 
 Letter to Marquis Lafayette, 1811. 
 
 October. 
 
 October is the month for painted leaves. . . . 
 As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a 
 bright tint just before they fall, so the year near 
 its setting. October is its sunset sky ; November 
 the later twilight. 
 
 1304 Henry D. Thoreau: Excursion. 
 
 Autumnal Tints. 
 
 Odors. 
 
 The rankest compound of villanous smell that 
 ever offended nostril. 
 
 1305 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Offence. 
 
 The guilt of any offence whatever, varies in- 
 versely with the strength and clearness of the evi- 
 dence which establishes its criminality. 
 
 1306 Gladstone : Later Gleanings, 
 
 Heresy and Schism. 
 
 Office. 
 
 Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on 
 offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. 
 
 1307 Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 Letter to Tench Coxe, 1799. 
 
 Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? 
 . . . And the creature run from the cur ? There 
 thou might'st behold the great image of authority : 
 a dog's obeyed in office. 
 
 1308. Shaks. ; King Lear, Act iv., Sc. 6 
 
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 Old Age. 
 
 Never sa} r you are too old. You do not say it 
 now, perhaps ; but by and by, when the hair 
 grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young 
 despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, 
 "It is too late for me." Never too late ! Never 
 too old ! How old are you, — thirty, fifty, eighty ? 
 What is that in immortality ? 
 
 1309 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 I am also old : age is the worst malady that I 
 endure and will kill me some day, perhaps just at 
 the moment when I am most plagued by curiosity 
 to see what turn events will take in the world. 
 
 1310 Bismarck: " Conversations with 
 Prince Bismarck," by Heinrich von Poschinger. 
 
 Old age is the repose of life ; the rest that pre- 
 cedes the rest that remains. 
 
 1311 Robt. Collyer: The Life lhat Noiv Is . 
 
 Tranquillity is the summum bonum of old age. 
 
 1312 Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 Letter to Mark L. Hill, 1820. 
 Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst 
 been wise. 
 
 1313 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Opinion. 
 
 A man's opinions, look you, are generally of 
 much more value than his arguments. 
 
 1314 Holmes: The Professor at the 
 
 Breakfast- Table, Gh. 5. 
 Difference of opinion was never, with me, a 
 motive of separation from a friend. 
 
 1315 Thomas Jefferson: 
 Letter to President Monroe, 1824. 
 
184 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Is uniformity of opinion desirable ? No more 
 than that of face and stature. 
 
 1316 Thomas Jefferson -.Notes on Virginia. 
 Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to 
 
 sense, are often true, but seldom or never the 
 whole truth. John Stuart. Mill : 
 
 1317 On Liberty, Ch. 2. 
 Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is 
 
 truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the 
 disposition of the spectator. 
 
 1318 Wendell Phillips : Orations, 
 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Idols. 
 
 A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on 
 both sides, like a leather jerkin. 
 
 1319 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Opportunity. 
 
 Our great social and political advantage is 
 opportunity. George William Curtis: 
 
 1320 Lotus-Eating. Lake George. 
 What is opportunity to the man who can't use 
 
 it ? An unf ecundated egg, which the waves of 
 time wash away into nonentity. 
 
 1321 George Eliot: Scenes from Clerical 
 
 Life. Amos Barton. 
 Opposition. 
 
 There is nothing against which human ingenuity 
 will not be able to find something to say. 
 
 1322 Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Gideon 
 
 Granger, 1801. 
 Oppression. 
 
 Oppression is but another name for irresponsible 
 power, if history is to be trusted. 
 
 1323 William Pinkney : Speech, Feb. 15, 1820. 
 
 The Missouri Question. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 185 
 
 Orators, Oratory. 
 
 There is no true orator who is not a hero. 
 
 1324 Emerson: Essays. Oj Eloquence. 
 
 The effect of oratory will always to a great 
 
 extent depend upon the character of the orator. 
 
 1325 Macau/lay: Miscellaneous Writings. 
 
 William Pit I. 
 
 The capital of the orator is in the bank of the 
 highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusi- 
 asms. Edward G. Parker: The Golden 
 
 1326 Age of American Oratory* Ch. 1. 
 
 Ordeal. 
 
 The ordeal is a superstition of all nations and of 
 all ages. God is summoned to bear miraculous 
 witness in favor of the innocent to condemn the 
 guilty. Milman: History of Latin 
 
 1327 Christianity. Vol. L, Ch. 5. 
 
 Order. 
 
 Every man being at his ease, feels an interest in 
 the preservation of order, and comes forth to 
 preserve it at the first call of the magistrate. 
 
 1328 Thomas Jefferson: Letter to M. Pidet. 
 
 You must confine yourself within the modest 
 limits of order. 
 
 1329 Shaks. : Tic. Xigkt, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Organism. 
 
 The essential thing in any organism in relation 
 to its surroundings, the characteristic quality on 
 which life depends, is adaptation to environment. 
 
 1330 Henry Drummond: 77te New Evan- 
 
 gelism. Survival of the Fittest. 
 
186 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 And here in America, I need not tell how many 
 forms of organization and of refusal to organize, 
 how many statements, platforms, movements, com- 
 binations, head centres, middle centres, and centre 
 centres would develop in three years. 
 
 1331 Edward Everett Hale: Ten Times 
 One is Ten. Old and New. Vol. i., Ch. 7. 
 
 Originality. 
 
 Originality is the one thing which unoriginal 
 minds cannot feel the use of. 
 
 1332 John Stuart Mill : On Liberty, Ch. 3. 
 
 Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the 
 throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude 
 of his own originality. Charles Phillips : 
 
 1333 The Character of Napoleon. 
 
 Orthodoxy. 
 
 " Orthodoxy, my lord, 11 said Bishop YVarburton, 
 in a whisper, »« orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy 
 is another man's doxy." 
 
 1334 Joseph Priestley: Memoirs, Vol. i. 
 
 Outcasts. 
 
 Xext to the fugitives whom Moses led out of 
 Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed 
 at Plymouth two centuries and a half ao'o are 
 destined to influence the future of the world. 
 
 1335 James Russell Lowell : Among My 
 
 Books. England Two Centuries Ago. 
 Oyster. 
 
 An oyster may be crossed in love. 
 1336" SheV.idax: The Critic, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. 
 1337 Savift : Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 187 
 
 P. 
 Pain. 
 
 Pain makes even the innocent man a liar. 
 
 1338 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 
 
 I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no com- 
 pensation for a moment of pain. 
 
 1339 Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 Letter to John Adams, 181 G. 
 
 Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a 
 strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and 
 torpid. 
 
 1340 John Sterling : Essays and Tales. 
 
 Thoughts and Images. 
 Painting. 
 
 The art of painting does not proceed so much 
 by intelligence as by sight and feeling and inven- 
 tion. 
 
 1341 Hamerton : Thoughts About Art. 
 
 XIV. The Artistic Spirit. 
 
 Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting 
 with the gift of speech. 
 
 1342 Simonides: {Plutarch, de Gloria 
 
 Atheniensium, iii., 346, F.). 
 Parenthesis. 
 
 What a parenthesis contains is grammatically 
 capable of severance from the sentence in which 
 it is found, but its contents have as full force in 
 regard to their substance as if there were no use 
 of parenthetical signs at all. 
 
 1343 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 
 
 The Church under Henry VIII. 
 Parents. 
 
 There is no friendship, no love, like that of the 
 parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 1344 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
188 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 In general those parents have the most rever- 
 ence who most deserve it ; for he that lives well 
 cannot be despised. 
 
 134:5 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 26. 
 
 Paris. 
 
 Good Americans when they die go to Paris. 
 
 1346 Thomas G. Appleton {The Autocrat 
 of the Breakfast- Table, vi., 0. W. Holmes). 
 
 Party. 
 
 He serves his party best who serves the country 
 best. Rutherford B. Hayes: 
 
 1347 Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. 
 If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I 
 
 would not go there at all. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1348 Letter to Francis Hopkinson, 1789. 
 Party is the madness of many for the gain of a 
 
 few. 
 
 1349 Pope : Tlioughls on Various Subjects. 
 
 Passion. 
 
 Passion is the avalanche of the human heart — a 
 single breath can dissolve it from its repose. 
 
 1350 Bulwer-Litton : Falkland, Bk. ii. 
 
 Oh, it offends me to the sonl to hear a robus- 
 tious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, 
 to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 
 who for the most part are capable of nothing but 
 inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. 
 
 1351 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Past. 
 
 You can never plan the future by the past. 
 
 1352 Burke : Letter to a Member of the 
 
 National Assembly, Vol. iv., p. 55. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 189 
 
 The past at least is secure. 
 
 1353 Daniel Webster: United States 
 
 Senate, Jan. 26, 1830. 
 Patience. 
 
 No man knows the lists of his own patience : 
 nor can divine how able he shall be in his suffer- 
 ings, till the storm come (the perfect virtue being 
 tried in action) . 
 
 1354 Bacon : Essays. On Death. 
 
 Our patience will achieve more than our force. 
 
 1355 Burke : Reflections on the Rev. in France. 
 
 How far then, Catiline, will you abuse our 
 patience ? 
 
 1356 Cicero : In Calilinam, i., 1, 1. 
 
 He that can have patience can have what he will. 
 
 1357 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 One great secret of patience is — to forgive 
 ourselves. This is much harder to do than to for- 
 give others. Coventry Patmore : 
 
 1358 Memoirs and Correspondence, Ch. 5. 
 
 How poor are they that have not patience. 
 
 1359 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Patriotism. 
 
 The patriot reveals the secret of his soul when 
 he gladly dies for his country, and sacrifices his 
 life upon the altar of his inspiration. 
 
 1360 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil, I. 
 
 Patriotism is the vital condition of national per- 
 manence. 
 
 1361 George William Curtis: Harper's 
 
 Magazine, September, 1889. 
 
190 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The man who loves his country on its own 
 account, and not merely for its trappings of inter- 
 est or power, can never be divorced from it, can 
 never refuse to come forward when he finds that 
 she is engaged in dangers which he has the means 
 of warding off. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1362 Letter to Elbridge Gerry, June, 1797 
 Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. 
 
 1363 Dr. Johnson: BosivelVs Life of Johnson. 
 II. 18. {George Birkbeck, Hill, Editor, 1887.) 
 
 That man is little to be envied whose patriotism 
 would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon. 
 1361 Dr. Johnson: Journey to the Western 
 
 Islands. Inch Kenneth. 
 
 Governments and ruling classes try with all 
 their strength to conserve that old public opinion 
 of patriotism upon which their power rests, and to 
 smother the expression of the new, which would 
 destroy it. Tolstoi: Essays, Letters, 
 
 1365 Miscellanies. Patriotism and Christianity. 
 
 Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the 
 vast field in which we are called to act. Let our 
 object be, our country, our whole country, 
 .\nd nothing but our country. And, by the 
 blessing of God, may that country itself become a 
 vast and splendid monument, not of oppression 
 and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, 
 upon which the world may gaze with admiration 
 forever. 
 
 1366 Daniel Webster: Speech, Charles- 
 
 town, Mass., June 17, 1825. 
 Peace. 
 
 The Bible does not require peace at any price. 
 It does not treat combativeness and destructiveness 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 191 
 
 as vicious elements in human nature, to be cru- 
 cified and put to death; indeed, it does not recog- 
 nize any faculty in human nature as evil and 
 vicious in itself and to be put to death. 
 
 1367 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 The Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, 
 whose window opened toward the sun-rising; the 
 name of the chamber was Peace, where he slept 
 till break of day, and then he awoke and sang. 
 
 1368 Bunyan : The Pilgrim^ Progress, Pt. i. 
 
 Let us have peace. Grant : Accepting a 
 
 1369 Nomination for the Presidency , 1868. 
 
 I love peace, and am anxious that we should 
 give the world still another useful lesson, by 
 showing to them other modes of punishing injuries 
 than by war, which is as much a punishment to 
 the punisher as to the sufferer. 
 
 1870 Thomas Jefferson : Letter to 
 
 Tench Coxe, May, 1794. 
 
 To be prepared for war is one of the most 
 effectual means of preserving peace. 
 
 1371 George Washington : Speech, 
 Jan. 8, 1790. To both Houses of Congress. 
 
 Peacemaker. 
 
 Your if is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in 
 If. 
 
 1372 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Pearl. 
 
 Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor 
 house ; as your pearl in your foul oyster. 
 
 1373 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
192 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Pen. 
 
 The pen is the tongue of the mind. 
 
 1374 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., 
 
 Ch. 16. (Lockharfs Trans.) 
 Penitence. 
 
 Gloomy penitence is only madness turned upside 
 down. Dr. Johnson : BosweWs Life of 
 
 1375 Johnson. III. 27. (George B. Hill, Ed.) 
 
 People. 
 
 The animosities of sovereigns are temporary 
 and may be allayed ; but those which seize the 
 whole body of a people, and of a peoj}le, too, who 
 dictate their own measures, produce calamities of 
 long duration. Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 1376 Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, 1786. 
 
 Where there is no vision, the people perish. 
 
 1377 Old Testament: Proverbs xxix. 18. 
 
 Perception. 
 
 It needs a man to perceive a man. 
 
 1378 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 
 
 VII. Creeds. Scripture. 
 Perfection. 
 
 As there is in nature, so there is in art, a point 
 of perfection. He who discovers it, and is touched 
 with it, has a good taste : he who is not sensible 
 of it, but loves what is below or above that point, 
 understands neither art nor nature. 
 
 1379 La Bruyere : Characters. Of Works 
 
 of Genius. (Bowe, Translator.) 
 Persecution. 
 
 The history of persecution is a history of 
 endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up 
 hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no differ- 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 193 
 
 ence whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant 
 or a mob. 
 
 1380 Emerson: Essays. Compensation. 
 
 Never was a persecution of innocent people 
 which has not ended in the persecutors receiving 
 the principle of the persecuted ; as it was with 
 the warrior Simeon, who exterminated the Pauli- 
 cians and then adopted their creed. 
 
 1381 Tolstoi : Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 
 
 Persecutions of Christians in Russia. 
 
 It would be impossible to enumerate in what 
 various shapes persecution has appeared. It is 
 a many-headed monster, insatiable as hell, cruel 
 as the grave ; and, what is worse, it generally 
 appears under the cloak of religion. 
 
 1382 George AVhitefield : Sermon. 
 
 Persecution Every Christianas Lot. 
 
 Perseverance. 
 
 Great works are performed not by strength but 
 by perseverance. 
 
 1383 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 13. 
 
 To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the 
 best answer to calumny. 
 
 1384 George Washington : Moral Maxims. 
 
 Personality. 
 
 The greatest and most vital power in influen- 
 cing life is personality. It is greater than law, 
 instruction, or example. 
 
 1385 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 
 
 Pessimism. 
 
 Every now and then some chronic pessimist 
 obtrudes himself on the public with his harsh, 
 
194 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 strident philosophy of a world made for misery 
 and becoming necessarily more wicked and miser- 
 able as it grows older. George C. Lorimer: 
 
 1386 Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. 
 
 I pity the man who can travel from Dan to 
 Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren. 
 
 1387 Laurence Sterne : 
 
 Sentimental Journal. In the Street. Calais. 
 
 Philanthropy. 
 
 There are two classes of philanthropists ; one 
 alleviates and the other cures. There is one class 
 of philanthropists that undertakes when a man 
 commits an evil to help him out of it. There is 
 another class that endeavors to abolish the tempta- 
 tion. The first is sentiment, the last is Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 1388 Wendell Phillips : Speeches. Lectures, 
 
 and Letters. Christianity a Battle. 
 
 Philosophers. 
 
 Be a philosopher ; but, amidst all your philos- 
 ophy, be still a man. 
 
 1389 Hume : Essays. XXXLX. An Inquiry 
 Concerning Human Understanding . Sec. 1. 
 
 A true philosopher is beyond the reach of for- 
 tune. 
 
 1390 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Epictetus and Seneca. 
 
 Philosophy. 
 
 Before philosophy can teach by experience, the 
 philosophy has to be in readiness, the experience 
 must be gathered and intelligibly recorded, 
 
 1391 C arlyle : Essays . On History . 
 {Erasers Magazine, Yol. ii., No. x., 183CK) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 195 
 
 Philosophy comprises the understanding of 
 virtue, of duty, and of right living. 
 
 1392 Cicero : In Pisonem, xxix., 71. 
 Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, 
 
 and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. 
 
 1393 Froude : Short Studies on Great 
 
 Subjects. Calvinism. 
 
 It goes much against my stomach. Hast any 
 philosophy in thee, shepherd ? 
 
 1394 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Phraseology. 
 
 I fear you underrate the evil effects that must 
 result from an eccentric phraseology. Uncom- 
 mon things must be said in common words, if you 
 would have them to be received in less than a 
 century. Coventry Patmore : 
 
 1395 Letter to H. S. Sutton, March 25, 1847. 
 
 Phrases. 
 
 " Convey," the wise it call. " Steal ! " foh ! a 
 hco for the phrase ! 
 
 1396 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act L, Sc. 3. 
 
 Physicians. 
 
 God heals, the doctor takes the fee. 
 
 1397 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Bichard's Al. 
 He [the physician] is the flower (such as it is) 
 
 of our civilization ; and when that stage of man is 
 done with, and only remembered to be marvelled 
 at in history, he Avill be thought to have shared as 
 little as any in the defects of the period, and most 
 notably exhibited the virtues of the race. 
 
 1398 Robert Louis Stevenson : 
 
 Dedication to '« Underwoods." 
 
196 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Nothing is more estimable than a physician 
 who, having studied nature from his vouth. 
 knows the properties of the human body, the dis- 
 eases which assail it, the remedies which will 
 benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays 
 equal attention to the rich and the poor. 
 
 1399 Voltaire : A Philosophical Dictionary . 
 
 Physicians. 
 Pi. 
 
 But to have the sweet babe of my brain served 
 in pi ! Lowell : 
 
 1400 Fable for Critics. Preface. 
 
 Pictures. 
 
 The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete 
 of the painter s vision. 
 
 1401 Hartley Coleridge: 
 
 Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. 
 
 No picture can be good which deceives by its 
 imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be 
 beautiful which is not true. Ruskin : 
 
 1402 Modem Painters, Pt i., Sec. i., Ch. 5, § 6. 
 
 Piety. 
 
 One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits. 
 
 1403 A. Bronson Alcott: Creeds. Piety. 
 Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul of 
 
 all religions. Jol'bert : 
 
 1404 Pensees. No. 23. (Attwell, Translator.) 
 
 Pilgrimage. 
 
 Pilgrimage, like many other acts of piety, may 
 be reasonable or superstitious, according to the 
 principles upon which it is performed. Long 
 journeys in search of truth are not commanded. 
 
 1405 Dr. Johnsox: Basselas, Ch. 11. 
 
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 Pitch. 
 
 He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled there- 
 with. 
 
 1406 Old Testament : E 'celestas licus xiii. 1. 
 
 Pitcher. 
 
 Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the 
 stone the pitcher, the pitcher suffers. 
 
 1407 Cervantes : Don Quixote 
 
 (Burke" s Trans.), p. 21. 
 
 Pity. 
 
 But yet the pity of it, Iago ! O Iago, the pity of 
 it, Iago ! 
 
 1408 Shaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 People seem to think themselves in some ways 
 superior to heaven itself, when they complain of 
 the sorrow and want round about them. And yet 
 it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into 
 their hearts. 
 
 1409 Anne Isabella Thackeray 
 (Mrs. Ritchie) : The Village on the Cliff, Ch. 7. 
 
 Places. 
 
 Places do not ennoble men, but men make places 
 illustrious. Agesilaus (Plutarch, 
 
 1410 Aj)ophthegmata Laconica). 
 
 Plagiarism. 
 
 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in 
 literature, that a man, having once shown himself 
 capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth 
 to steal from the writings of others at discretion. 
 Thought is the property of him who can entertain 
 it, and of him who can adequately place it. A 
 certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed 
 
198 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 thoughts ; but as soon as we have learned what to 
 do with them, they become our own. 
 
 1411 Emerson: Representative Men. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers 
 who do nothing else than repeat backwards and 
 forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, 
 and the truths already printed, we may term 
 plagiarists ; but honest plagiarists, who arrogate 
 not the merit of invention. Voltaire : 
 
 1412 A Philosophical Dictio nary . Plagiarism . 
 
 Play. 
 
 Play maj' not have so high a place in the divine 
 economy, but it has as legitimate a place as prayer. 
 
 1413 " J. G. Holland : Plain Talks on 
 
 Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. 
 
 Pleasure. 
 
 Pleasure lies rather in tranquillity than in activ- 
 ity. Aristotle : Ethica Nicomachea, 
 
 1414 vii., 14, 8. 
 Pleasure may perfect us as- truly as prayer. 
 
 1415 William Ellery Chanxixg : 
 
 Note-Book. Joy, Hap>p>iness. 
 Fly pleasures and they will follow you. 
 
 1416 Benjamin Franklin : 
 
 Poor BicharoVs Al. 
 
 Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know 
 there is no hook beneath it. 
 
 1417 Thomas Jefferson : 
 Letter to Mrs. Cosicay, 1786. 
 
 Pleasures never can be so multiplied or con- 
 tinued as not to leave much of life unemployed. 
 
 1418 Dr. Johnson : Basselas, Ch. 4. 
 
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 The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not 
 be disputed; but it is still to be examined what 
 pleasures are harmless. 
 
 1419 Dr. Johnson: Rasselas, Ch. 47. 
 
 The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it 
 gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleas- 
 ure to the spectators. Mac aula y : 
 
 1420 History of England, Vol. i., Ch. 3. 
 
 Pledge. 
 
 A pledge is the daughter of injury, the daughter 
 of loss. Epicharmus : 
 
 1421 Fabulce Incertce, Fragment 26. 
 
 Plot, 
 
 Who cannot be crushed by a plot. 
 
 1422 Shaks. : All's Well, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Poetry. 
 
 Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, 
 and widely effective mode of saying things, and 
 hence its importance. Matthew Arnold : 
 
 1423 Essays in Criticism. Heinrich Heine. 
 
 Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the 
 symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite 
 it the most powerfully and delightfully. 
 
 1424 Bryant: Prose Writings. Lectures on 
 
 Poetry. On the Nature of Poetry. 
 
 Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent 
 of most. Congreve: The Way of the World. 
 
 1425 Dedication. 
 Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. 
 
 1426 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Inspiration. 
 
200 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, 
 as the songs of the nightingales in every spring- 
 time. Heine : Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. 
 
 1427 The Romantic School. 
 
 A poem is the very image of life expressed in 
 its eternal truth. 
 
 1428 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry . 
 
 Poets. 
 
 It is a man^s sincerity and depth of vision that 
 make him a poet. Carlyle : 
 
 1429 Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 No doubt it is primarily by his poetic qualities 
 that a poet must be judged, for it is by these, if by 
 anything, that he is to maintain his place in litera- 
 ture. And he must be judged by them absolutely, 
 with reference, that is, to the highest standard, 
 and not relatively to the fashions and opportunities 
 of the age in which he lived. Lowell : 
 
 1430 Among My Books. Dante. 
 
 A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, 
 with his garland and singing robes about him. 
 
 1431 Milton : The Reason of Church 
 Government, Bk. ii. Introduction. 
 
 The poet who does not revere his art, and be- 
 lieve in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the 
 purple. Stedman: Poets of America, Ch. 9. 
 
 1432 James Russell Lowell. 
 
 Poison. 
 
 Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and 
 there is nothing so evil but what may be converted 
 to purposes of good. Kenelm Dig by : 
 
 1433 The Broad Stone of Honour. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 201 
 
 Policy. 
 
 Peace and friendship with all mankind is our 
 wisest policy, and I wish Ave may be permitted to 
 pursue it. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1434 Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, 1786. 
 
 Politeness. 
 
 Politeness has been well denned as benevolence 
 in small things. Macaulay : Essays. 
 
 1435 Croker's Ed. ofBoswelVs Life of Johnson. 
 
 Politeness is the art of choosing among one's 
 real thoughts. Abel Stevens : 
 
 1436 Life of Mme. de Stael, Ch. 4. 
 
 Politicians. 
 
 The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited 
 to the present posture of affairs. Often by fore- 
 going a part he saves the whole, and by yielding 
 in a small matter secures a greater. 
 
 1437 Plutarch : Lives. Poplicola and Solon. 
 
 And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever 
 could make two ears of corn, or two blades of 
 grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only 
 one grew before, would deserve better of man- 
 kind, and do more essential service to his coun- 
 try, than the whole race of politicians put 
 together. Sw^ift : Gulliver's Travels. 
 
 1438 Voyage to Brobdingnag, Ch. 7. 
 
 Political Economy. 
 
 Political economy deals with only one side of 
 human experience, — the laws of the production 
 and distribution of w r ealth Political econ- 
 omy must therefore follow and not lead Christian- 
 it}', and will conform itself to the conclusions at 
 
202 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 which society arrives in its progress toward a 
 permanent moral order. 
 
 1439 Abram S. Hewitt : The Mutual 
 Relations of Capital and Labor. 1878. 
 
 Politics. 
 
 Vain hope, to make people happy by politics ! 
 
 1440 Carlyle : Thomas Carlyle, First 
 Forty Years, by Fronde. Journal, Oct., 1831. 
 
 Politics is a deleterious profession, like some 
 poisonous handicrafts. 
 
 1441 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 
 Politics, like religion, holds up the torches of 
 
 martyrdom to the reformers of error. 
 
 1442 Thomas Jefferson: 
 Letter to Mr. Ogilvie, 1811. 
 
 Politics is the science of exigencies. 
 
 1443 Theodore Parker : Ten Sermons of 
 
 Religion. Of Truth and the Intellect. 
 
 Poor Relations. 
 
 It is a melancholy truth that even great men 
 have their poor relations. Indeed, great men have 
 often more than their fair share of poor relations ; 
 inasmuch as very red blood of the superior qual- 
 ity, like inferior blood unlawfully shed, will cry 
 aloud, and will be heard. 
 
 1444 Dickens: Bleak House, Ch. 28. 
 
 Popularity. 
 
 True popularity takes deep root and spreads 
 itself wide, but the false falls away like blos- 
 soms ; for nothing that is false can be lasting. 
 
 1445 Cicero: Offices, Bk. ii., Ch. 12. 
 
 (Edmonds, Translator.) 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 203 
 
 I don't eare a fig for popularity for myself : but, 
 if I believe that my writings contain that which is 
 capable of doing their readers good, I cannot but 
 grieve if it has been my own fault — as in the 
 present instance it has — that I have not had more 
 readers. Coventry Patmore : 
 
 1446 Letter to II. S. Sutton, April 14, 1847. 
 
 Portraits. 
 
 To sit for one's portrait is like being present at 
 one's own creation. Alexander Smith : 
 
 14-i7 Dreamthorp. On Vagabonds. 
 
 Possession. 
 
 Possession is eleven points in the law. 
 1448 Culley Cibber: Woman's Wit. Act i. 
 
 The thing possessed is not the thing it seems. 
 14:49 Samuel Daniel: Civil War, Bk. ii.,xiii. 
 An ill-favored thing, sir. but mine own. 
 
 1450 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act v., Sc. 4:. 
 
 Possibilities. 
 
 There is always the possibility of beanty where 
 there is an unsealed human eye ; of music, where 
 there is an unstopped human ear : and of inspira- 
 tion, where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit 
 standing before. 
 
 1451 Charles II. Paekeetest : Sermons. 
 II. Human Spirit and Divine Inspiration. 
 
 Posterity. 
 
 Posterity ! you will never know how much it 
 cost the present generation to preserve your free- 
 dom ! I hope you will make a good use of it. If 
 you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever 
 took half the pains to preserve it. 
 
 1452 John Adam- : / • ft rs Addressi I to 
 
 His Wife, Letter exi. 
 
204 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Posterity, that high court of appeal which is 
 never tired of eulogizing its own justice and dis- 
 cernment. 
 
 1453 Macaulay : Essay on Machiavelli. 
 
 Poverty. 
 
 Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and 
 virtue. 
 
 1454 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Packard's Al. 
 As society advances, the standard of poverty 
 
 rises. 
 
 1455 Theodore Parker : Critical and 
 Miscellaneous Writings. Thoughts on Labor. 
 
 Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or 
 truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough 
 if you meet her like a man. 
 
 1456 Thackeray: Philip, Ch. 19. 
 
 Power. 
 
 Power is so far from being desirable in itself, 
 that it sometimes ought to be refused, and some- 
 times to be resigned. Cicero : 
 
 1457 Offices, Bk. i., Ch. 20. {Edmonds, Trans.) 
 
 From the summit of power men no longer turn 
 their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. 
 
 1458 Lowell : Among My Books. 
 
 Neiv England Two Centuries Ago. 
 
 Power is always right, weakness always wrong. 
 Power is always insolent and despotic. 
 
 1459 Xoah Webster : Essays. The Times. 
 
 {American Men of Letters.) 
 Praise. 
 
 Certainly, moderate praise, used with oppor- 
 tunity, and not vulgar, is that which doeth the 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 205 
 
 good. Solomon saith, " He that praiseth his friend 
 aloud, rising early, it shall be no better to him 
 than a curse.' ' 
 
 1460 Bacon: Essays. Of Praise. 
 
 Praise is the reflection of virtue ; but it is glass, 
 or body, which giveth the reflection. 
 
 1461 Bacon: Essays. Of Praise. 
 
 A man who does not love praise is not a full 
 man. Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 1462 Proverbs from Plymouth Putyil. 
 
 Praise from another is far better than self-praise. 
 
 1463 Democritus : Ethica, Fragment 117 (232). 
 
 I do not think any one enjoyed praise more than 
 he [Oliver Wendell Holmes] . Of course he would 
 not provoke it, but if it came of itself, he would 
 not deny himself the pleasure, as long as a relish 
 of it remained. Howells : 
 
 1464 Literary Friends and Acquaintance. 
 
 Some deserve praise for what they have done, 
 and others for what they would have done. 
 
 1465 La Bruyere : Characters. 
 Of Personal Merit. (Bowe, Translator.) 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 No man ever prayed heartily without learning 
 something. 
 
 1466 Emerson: Miscellanies. Nature, Ch. 8. 
 
 Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the 
 church ; it is a goodly Christian's weapon, which 
 no man knows or finds but only he who has the 
 spirit of grace and of prayer. 
 
 1467 Martin Luther : Table Talk. 
 Of Prayer. JSTo. 329. (Hazlitt, Translator.) 
 
206 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross 
 my prayers. 
 
 1468 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Preaching. 
 
 The chief end of preaching is, after all, inspira- 
 tion, and the man who has been set on fire is the 
 vindication of the pulpit. The chief disaster of 
 jDreaching is detachment and indifference. 
 
 1469 Dr. J. Watson (" Ian Maclaren ") : 
 
 Church Folks, Ch. 1. 
 Precedent. 
 
 A precedent embalms a principle. 
 
 1470 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Speech, Feb. 22, 1848. 
 For what oppression may not a precedent be 
 found in this world of the bellam omnium in 
 omnia ? Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1471 Notes on Virginia, 1782. 
 
 Precept. 
 
 For precept must be upon precept, precept ujdoii 
 precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a 
 little, and there a little. 
 
 1472 Old Testament: Isaiah xxviii. 10. 
 
 Predecessors. 
 
 Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and 
 tenderly ; for if thou dost not, it is a debt will 
 surely be paid when thou art gone. 
 
 1473 Bacon: Essays. Of Boldness. 
 
 Prejudice. 
 
 People have prejudices against a nation in which 
 they have no acquaintances. Hamerton: 
 
 1474 Modem Frenchmen. Henri Ferreyve. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 207 
 
 Prejudice is the child of ignorance. 
 
 1475 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays. 
 
 Press. 
 
 Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, 
 and that cannot be limited without being lost. 
 
 1476 Thos. Jefferson: To Dr. J. Gurrie, 1786. 
 
 Pride. 
 
 Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own ; 
 it is the ennobled offspring of self-love. 
 
 1477 Joanna Baillie : The Second Marriage, 
 
 Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great 
 deal more saucy. 
 
 1478 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 He that is proud eats up himself : pride is his 
 own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle ; 
 and whatever praises itself but in the deed, 
 devours the deed in the praise. 
 
 1479 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Principle. 
 
 A great character, founded on the living rock of 
 principle, is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, 
 to be at once perceived, limited, and described. 
 It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to 
 have, not merely an immediate, but a continuous, 
 progressive, and never-ending agency. 
 
 1480 Edward Everett : Orations and 
 Speeches. Oration, Beverly, July 4, 1835. 
 
 Printer. 
 
 Come, don't be faint-hearted, there has many a 
 printer been raised to the pillory from as slender 
 be<nnnim>;s. 
 
 1481 Foote : Devil upon Tiro Sticks, ii. 
 
208 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I am a printer, and a printer of news ; and I do 
 hearken after them, wherever they be at any 
 rates ; I'll give anything for a good copy now, be 
 it true or false, so it be news. 
 
 1482 Ben Jonson : News from the Neiv World. 
 
 Printing. 
 
 Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth 
 of the realm in erecting- a grammar school : and 
 whereas, before, our forefathers had no other 
 books but the score and the tall} 7 , thou hast caused 
 printing to be used ; and, contrary to the King, his 
 crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. 
 
 1483 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 7. 
 
 Privilege. 
 
 What men prize most is a privilege, even if it 
 be that of chief mourner at a funeral. 
 
 1484 Lowell : Democracy and Other 
 Addresses. Address, Birmingham, Eng ., 1884. 
 
 Probabilities. 
 
 We should discredit even probabilities from our 
 enemies, and believe even improbabilities from 
 our friends. Thales : (Plutarch, Septem 
 
 1485 Sapientum Symposium, xvii., 160 i?.). 
 
 Procrastination. 
 
 Never leave that till to-morrow which you can 
 do to-day. 
 
 1486 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Production. 
 
 In general, it is a truth that if every nation will 
 employ itself in what it is fittest to produce, a 
 greater quantity will be raised of the things con- 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 209 
 
 tributing to human happiness, than if every nation 
 attempts to raise everything it wants within itself. 
 
 1487 Thomas Jefferson : Letter to 
 
 M. Lasteyrie, 1808. 
 Profanity. 
 
 Not to speak it profanely. . 
 
 1488 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 " Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, 1 ' cried 
 my Uncle Toby, " but nothing to this." 
 
 1489 Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy, 
 
 Vol. iii., Ch. 11. (Grig. Ed.) 
 Progress. 
 
 Cost is the father and compensation is the 
 mother of progress. J. G. Holland : 
 
 1490 Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. 
 
 Every step of progress the world has made has 
 been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to 
 stake. It would hardly be exaggeration to say. 
 that all the great truths relating to society and 
 government have been first heard in the solemn 
 protests of martyred patriotism, or the loud cries 
 of crushed and starving labor. 
 
 1491 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
 Lectures, and Letters. Woman's Bights. 
 
 Promises. 
 
 Not to perform our promise, is a folly, a dis- 
 honor, and a crime. Lord Chesterfield: 
 
 1492 Advice to His Son. 
 
 It is well to hold one's country to her promises, 
 and if there are any who think she is forgetting 
 them it is their duty to say so, even to the point of 
 bitter accusation. Ho wells: Literary Friends 
 
 1493 and Acquaintance. Studies of Lowell. 
 
210 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Never promise more than you can perform. 
 1491 Publius Syrus : Maxim 528. 
 
 He was ever precise in promise-keeping. 
 
 1495 Shaks. : M.for M., Act L, Sc. 2. 
 
 Promptness. 
 
 Know the true value of time ; snatch, seize, and 
 enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no lazi- 
 ness, no procrastination : never put off till to- 
 morrow what you can do to-day. 
 
 1496 Lord Chesterfield : Letter to His Son, 
 
 Dec. 26, 1749. 
 Property. 
 
 A right to property is founded in our natural 
 wants, in the means with which we are endowed 
 to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we 
 acquire by those means without violating the 
 similar rights of other sensible beings. 
 
 1497 Thomas Jefferson : 
 Letter to Bupont de Nemours, 1816. 
 
 Prose. 
 
 The walk of prose is a walk of business along a 
 roacl with an end to reach, and without leisure to 
 do more than take a glance at the prospect. 
 
 1498 J. C. and A. W. Hare : Guesses at Truth. 
 
 Proselytism. 
 
 When the proselytizer begins his operations, his 
 first act is to plant his battering-ram, stronger or 
 weaker as the case may be, against the fabric of a 
 formed belief. It may be a belief well formed or 
 ill ; but it is all which the person attacked has to 
 depend upon, and where it is sincere and warm, 
 even if unenlightened, the proselytizer, properly so 
 called, seems to have a sjjecial zest in the attack. 
 
 1499 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 211 
 
 Prosperity. 
 
 Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; 
 adversity is the blessing of the New. 
 
 1500 Bacon: Essays. Of Adversity. 
 
 I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little 
 more taste. Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk. vii., 
 
 1501 Ch. 4. {Smollett, Translator.) 
 
 Protestantism. 
 
 The religion most prevalent in our northern 
 colonies is a refinement on the principles of resis- 
 tance : it is the dissidence of dissent, and the pro- 
 testantism of the Protestant religion. 
 
 1502 Burke : Speech on the Conciliation 
 
 of America, Vol. ii., p. 123. 
 
 Protestations. 
 
 Protestations with men are like tears with 
 women, forgot ere the cheek be dry. 
 
 1503 Thomas Middleton : 
 
 The Family of Love, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and 
 seasonably applied ; but to be forever discharging 
 them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conver- 
 sation insipid and vulgar. Cervantes : 
 
 1504 Bon Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 43. 
 
 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, 
 are the sanctuary of the Intuitions. 
 
 1505 Emerson: Essays. Compensation. 
 
 Providence. 
 
 God^ providence is on the side of clear heads. 
 
 1506 Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 Broverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
212 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Providence certainly does not favor individuals, 
 but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the 
 instruction and ennoblement of all. 
 
 1507 WlLHELM VON HUMBOLDT : 
 
 Letters to a Female Friend, Vol. L, No. 67. 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 There must be in prudence also some master 
 virtue. Aristotle: Ethics, Bk. vi., 
 
 1508 Ch. 7. ( Browne, Trans.) 
 
 Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the 
 science of appearances. It is the utmost action of 
 the inward life. 
 
 1509 Emerson: Essays. Prudence. 
 
 Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. 
 
 1510 Sheridan: The School for Scandal, 
 
 Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Public Opinion. 
 
 Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public 
 opinion. Hazlitt : 
 
 1511 Characteristics. No. 81. 
 
 Pulpits. 
 
 Our idea of a pulpit is, that wherever a moral 
 purpose dictates earnest words to make our neigh- 
 bor a better man and better citizen, to clear the 
 clogged channels of life, to lift it to a higher level, 
 or form it on a better model, there is a pulpit. 
 
 1512 AVendell Phillips: 
 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. The Pulpit. 
 
 Punctuality. 
 
 Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 
 
 1513 Louis X YIIT. : 
 
 Best known of his Sayings. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 213 
 
 Punishment. 
 
 The only punishment which ever crushes a 
 cause is that which its leader necessarily suffers 
 in consequence of the new order of things made 
 necessary to prevent the recurrence of their sin. 
 
 1514 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
 Lectures, and Letters. Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Puns. 
 
 1 have mentioned puns. They are, I believe, 
 what I have denominated them — the wit of 
 words. They are exactly the same to words 
 which wit is to ideas, and consist in the sudden 
 discovery of relations in language. 
 
 1515 Sydney Smith: Lecture. 
 The Conduct of the Understanding . 
 
 Puritanism. 
 
 Puritanism meant something when Captain 
 Hodgson, riding out to battle through the morn- 
 ing mist, turns over the command of his troop to 
 a lieutenant, and stays to hear the prayer of a cor- 
 net, there was " so much of God in it. 1 ' 
 
 1516 Lowell: Among My Books. 
 New England Two Centuries Ago. 
 
 The Puritan was not a man of speculation. He 
 originated nothing. His principles are to be 
 found broadcast in the centuries behind him. 
 His speculations were all old. You might find them 
 in the lectures of Abelard ; you meet witli 
 them in the radicalism of Wat T}ler; you find 
 them all over the continent of Europe. The dis- 
 tinction between his case and that of others was 
 simply that he practised what he believed. 
 
 1517 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
 Lectures, and Letters. The Puritan Principle. 
 
214 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Purity. 
 
 Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the 
 
 streams. A. Bronson Alcott : 
 
 1518 Table Talk. V. Habits. Chastity. 
 
 Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of 
 a woman. 
 
 1519 Mme. de Stael: Germany, Pt. iii., 
 Ch . 19 . (Wight's revision of Murray's ed . ) 
 
 Purpose. 
 
 There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it 
 may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled 
 therefore ; nor is any purpose so great but that 
 slight actions may help it, and may be so done as 
 to help it much, most especially that chief of all 
 £>urposes, the pleasing of God. 
 
 1520 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of 
 
 Architecture. Introductory . 
 
 Pyramids. 
 
 The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, 
 have forgotten the names of their founders. 
 
 1521 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and 
 Profane State. The Holy State. Of To?nbs. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quality. 
 
 Things that have a common quality ever quickly 
 seek their kind. 
 
 1522 Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ix. 9. 
 
 Quarrels. 
 
 There are quarrels in which even Satan bring- 
 ing help, were not unwelcome. 
 
 1523 Carlyle: French Rev., Bk. iii., Ch. 5. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 215 
 
 An association of men who will not quarrel 
 with one another is a thing which never yet ex- 
 isted, from the greatest confederacy of nations 
 down to a town meeting or a vestr} T . 
 
 1524 Thomas Jefferson : 
 Letter to John Taylor, 1798. 
 
 Thon ! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that 
 hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than 
 thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for 
 cracking nuts, having no other reason but 
 because thou hast hazel eyes. 
 
 1525 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Question. 
 
 A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth 
 many times surprise a man, and lay him open. 
 
 1526 Bacon: Essays. Of Cunning. 
 
 Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to 
 every question, exactly opposite to each other. 
 
 1527 Diogenes Laertius: Protagoras, iii. 
 
 Quotations. 
 
 One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and 
 well. 
 
 1528 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk. 
 
 I. Learning, Quotation. 
 
 The art of quotation requires more delicacy in 
 the practice than those conceive who can see noth- 
 ing more in a quotation than an extract. 
 
 1529 Isaac Disraeli: 
 Curiosities of Literature. Quotation, 
 
 A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw 
 on his invention when his memory serves him with 
 a word as good. 
 
 1530 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. 
 
216 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Every book is a quotation, and every house is a 
 quotation out of all forests and mines and stone- 
 quarries, and every man is a quotation from all 
 his ancestors. 
 
 1531 Emerson: Representative, Men. Plato. 
 
 Give the author his due, and gain myself praise 
 by reading him. 
 
 1532 John Selden: 
 Table Talk. Books. Authors. 
 
 They have been at a great feast of languages 
 and stolen the scraps. 
 
 1533 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Quoter. 
 
 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the 
 first quoter of it. 
 
 1534 Emerson : Tjetiers and Social Aims. 
 
 Quotation and Originality. 
 
 I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's 
 stuff. Sir Henry Wotton: 
 
 1535 Elements of Architecture. Preface. 
 
 Rage. 
 
 Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a 
 hole. Swift : 
 
 1536 Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729. 
 
 Rags. 
 
 Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are 
 the beggar's robe, and graceful insignia of his 
 
DICTIOXARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 217 
 
 profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in 
 which he is expected to show himself in public. 
 
 1537 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 
 
 On the Decay of Beggars. 
 
 Rain. 
 
 Rain ! whose soft architectural hands have 
 power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of gran- 
 deur the very mountains, as no artist could eA'er do. 
 
 1538 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Nature. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Rank is a great beautifier. Bulwer-Lyttox : 
 
 1539 The Lady of Lyons, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Ramparts. 
 
 The ramparts of our cities should be built not of 
 stone and timber, but of the brave hearts of our 
 citizens. 
 
 1540 Agesilaus : (Plutarch, Apophthegmata 
 
 Laconica, Agesilai, 30. 210, E.). 
 
 Reading. 
 
 It is not the reading of many books which is 
 necessary to make a man wise or good, but the 
 well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have 
 the best. And it is not possible to read over 
 many on the same subject in great deal of loss of 
 precious time. Richard Baxter : 
 
 1541 Christian Directory, Pt. ii., Ch. 16. 
 
 In science, read by preference the newest 
 works ; in literature, the oldest. The classic 
 literature is always modern. 
 
 1542 Bulwer-Lyttox. Caxtoniana. 
 
 Hints on Mental Culture. 
 
218 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we 
 should ask him what books he read. 
 
 1543 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims . 
 
 Quotation and Originality . 
 
 All my life, my reading, with the exception of 
 novels for recreation, has been limited almost 
 wholly to the few great books from which the 
 world derives all its knowledge. 
 
 1544 Coventry Patmore : 
 (Memoirs and Correspondence, Ch. 7) 
 
 No man can read with profit that which he can- 
 not learn to read with pleasure. 
 
 1545 Noah Porter: Books and Reading, Ch. 1. 
 
 No book is worth anything which is not worth 
 much ; nor is it serviceable until it has been read 
 and re-read, and loved and loved again, and marked, 
 so that you can refer to the passages you want in 
 it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an 
 armory. Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 
 
 1546 Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 
 
 He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in 
 a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath 
 not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he 
 is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. 
 
 1547 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the 
 body. 
 
 1548 Steele: The Tatler. No. 147. 
 
 Reason. 
 
 If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap 
 your knuckles. Benjamin Franklin : 
 
 1549 Poor Richard's Almanac, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 219 
 
 By reason only can we attain to a correct knowl- 
 edge of the world and a solution of its great prob- 
 lems. Reason is man's highest gift, the only 
 prerogative that essentially distinguishes him from 
 the lower animals. Xevertheless, it has only 
 reached this high position by the progress of cul- 
 ture and education, by the development of knowl- 
 edge. Ernest Haeckel : The Riddle of the 
 
 1550 Universe. The Nature of the Problem. 
 
 Man once surrendering his reason, has no re- 
 maining guard against absurdities the most mon- 
 strous, and like a ship without rudder, is the 
 sport of every wind. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1551 Letter to James Smith, 1822. 
 
 The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, 
 ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of 
 o-ood reasoning-. John St cart Mill : 
 
 1552 System of Logic. On Fallacies, Bk. v. 
 
 Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons 
 were as plenty as blackberries I would give no 
 man a reason upon compulsion, I. 
 
 1553 Shaks. : 1 Henry TV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Man has been given by God one single instru- 
 ment to attain knowledge of self and of one's re- 
 lation to the universe : there is no other, and that 
 one is reason. Tolstoi: Essays, Letters, 
 
 1551 Miscellanies. Reason and Religion. 
 
 Reflection. 
 
 The solitary side of our nature demands leisure 
 for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and 
 whirl of daily business, so Long as its clouds rise 
 thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. 
 
 1555 Froude: Sea Studies. 
 
220 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Reform. 
 
 Things even salutary should not be crammed 
 down the throats of dissenting brethren, especially 
 when they may be put into a form to be willingly 
 swallowed. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1556 Letter to Edward Livingston, 1824. 
 
 Reformers. 
 
 He [James Russell Lowell] had pretty well 
 given up making man over in his own image, as 
 we all wish some time to do, and then no longer 
 wish it. . . . When we have done our best to 
 make the world over, we are apt to be dismayed 
 by finding it in much the old shape. 
 
 1557 Howells : Literary Friends, etc. 
 
 Regret. 
 
 He never complained about the past, never 
 uttered a vain regret. He considered those words 
 idle and profitless which men employ in pleading 
 against irremediable evils. Hamertox : 
 
 1588 Modem Frenchmen. Francois Rude. 
 
 Religion. 
 
 Religion is not an opinion about righteousness, 
 it is the practice of righteousness. A religious 
 education is not education in ethics. A religious 
 education is the training of the religious nature. 
 
 1559 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, 
 but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to ex- 
 patiate in. 
 
 1560 Addison: The Spectator, No. 494. 
 
 Religion is the basis of civil society, and the 
 source of all good and of all comfort. Burke : 
 
 1561 Reflections on the Revolution in France. 
 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 221 
 
 Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts 
 of God to man, without distinction of race and 
 color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and 
 no power on earth has a right to stand between 
 God and the conscience. Philip Schaff : 
 
 1562 Church and Stale in the United States. 
 
 Religion cannot be forced and cannot be accepted 
 for the sake of anything, force, fraud, or profit. 
 Therefore what is so accepted is not religion but 
 a fraud. And this religious fraud is a long- 
 established condition of man's life. 
 
 1563 Tolstoi : Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 
 
 Church and State. 
 Remedy. 
 
 It often happens in morals, as well as in physics, 
 that the remedy is worse than the disease. 
 
 1564 James Fenimore Cooper: 
 
 Miles Wallingford, Ch. 30. 
 Remembrance. 
 
 The leafy blossoming present time springs from 
 the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. 
 
 1565 Carlyle : Cromwell's Letters and 
 
 Speeches. Introduction, Ch. 1. 
 
 There's rosemary, that's for remembrance ; . . . 
 and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. 
 
 1566 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
 Remorse. 
 
 Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. 
 
 1567 Shaks. : Richard ILL., Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Renunciation. 
 
 Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow 
 borne willingly. George Eliot : 
 
 1568 Ihe Mill on the Floss, Bk. iv., Ch. 3. 
 
222 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Repentance. 
 
 R epentance is no other than a recanting of the 
 wil% and opposition to our fancies, which lead us 
 which way they please. Montaigne : 
 
 1569 Essays. Bk. iii., Ch. 2. (Hazlitt, Trans.) 
 
 Well, 111 repent, and that suddenly, while I am 
 in some liking : I shall be out of heart shortly, 
 and then I shall have no strength to repent. An' 
 I have not forgotten what the inside of a church 
 is made of; I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse; 
 the inside of a church ! Company, villanous com- 
 pany, hath been the spoil of me. 
 
 1570 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Republicanism. 
 
 It is a part of the necessary theory of republican 
 government, that every class and race shall be 
 judged by its highest types, not its lowest. 
 
 1571 Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 
 Women and the Aljrfiabet. Temperament. 
 
 The republican is the only form of government 
 which is not eternally at open or secret war with 
 the rights of mankind. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1572 Reply to Address, 1790. 
 
 Reputation. 
 
 The reputation of the master reveals that of the 
 servant. Cervantes: Don Quixote, p. 59. 
 
 1573 (Burke's Trans.) 
 
 How many people live on the reputation of the 
 reputation they might have made ! 
 
 1574 Holmes : The Autocrat of the 
 
 Breakfast- Table, Ch. 3. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 223 
 
 Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last 
 some people twice the time of others. 
 
 1575 Douglas Jerrold : Specimens of 
 
 Jerrold's Wit. Reputations. 
 Reputation is an idle and most false imposition : 
 oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 
 
 1576 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 Associate with men of good quality, if you 
 
 esteem }^our own reputation ; for it is better to be 
 alone than in bad company. 
 
 1577 George Washington: Social Maxims. 
 
 Resentment. 
 
 Resentment gratifies him who intended an 
 injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend 
 it. Dr. Johnson : BosivelVs Life of Johnson. 
 
 1578 IV. 367. {George Birkbeck Hill, Ed.) 
 
 Resignation. 
 
 Thought leads to resignation. Amiel : 
 
 1579 Journal, 1866. {Mrs. H. Ward, Trans.) 
 
 Respect. 
 
 Proper respect for some persons is best pre- 
 served by avoiding their neighborhood. 
 
 1580 George W . Curtis : The Poliphar Papers. 
 
 You will be worthy of respect from all when 
 you have first learnt to respect yourself. 
 
 1581 MusoniuS: (Stobams, Florilegium) . 
 
 Respectability. 
 
 To be respectable implies a multitude of little 
 observances, from the strict keeping of Sunday, 
 down to the careful tying of a cravat. 
 
 1582 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea, 
 
 Pt. i., Bk. iii., Ch. 12. 
 
224 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Responsibility. 
 
 Responsibility is one instrument — a great instru- 
 ment — of education, both moral and intellectual. 
 It sharpens the faculties. It unfolds the moral 
 nature. It makes the careless prudent, and turns 
 recklessness into sobriety. 
 
 1583 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
 Lectures, and Letters. Woman's Bights. 
 
 The plea of ignorance will never take away our 
 responsibilities. Ruskin: Lectures on 
 
 1584 Architecture and Painting. 
 
 Rest. 
 
 Rest is for the dead. Carlyle : 
 
 1585 Thomas Carlyle. By Froude. 
 
 Restraint. 
 
 When you have anything to communicate that 
 will distress the heart of the person whom it con- 
 cerns, be silent, in order that he may hear from 
 some one else. Saadi : The Gulistan, 
 
 1586 Ch. 8. Bulesfor Conduct in Life. 
 
 Results. 
 
 There is no chance in results. 
 
 1587 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. 
 
 Resurrection. 
 
 Happy are we if on the body of the resurrection 
 we can bear the face with which victorious Chris- 
 tians leave the earth. 
 
 1588 Samuel Willoughby Duffield: 
 
 Fragments. 
 
 Retreat. 
 
 Let us make an honorable retreat. 
 
 1589 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 225 
 
 Revelation. 
 
 I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth 
 yet to break forth out of his holy word. . . . f 
 oeseech you, remember (it is an article of youi 
 church covenant) that you be ready to receive 
 whatever truth shall be made known to you from 
 the word of God. 
 
 1590 John Robinson: Farewell Address 
 
 to the Pilgrims , 1620. 
 Revenge. 
 
 In revenge, haste is criminal. 
 
 1591 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. 
 
 Ornamenta Bationalia. 
 
 He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own 
 wounds green. 
 
 1592 Bacon: Ornamenta Bationalia. 
 
 Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the 
 more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to 
 weed it out. 
 
 1593 Bacon: Essays. Of Revenge. 
 
 There's small revenge in words, but words may 
 be greatly revenged. 
 
 1594 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my 
 revenge. 
 
 1595 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a 
 semi-barbarous age. 
 
 1596 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry. 
 
 Reverence. 
 
 Reverence begins with reverence of the child 
 for its parents, goes on with reverence to the ideal- 
 
226 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 ized heroes of past history, and reaches up to 
 reverence to the Almighty. 
 
 1597 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 I am disposed to think that if reverence for the 
 gods were destroyed, Ave should also lose honest}/ 
 and the brotherhood of mankind, and that most 
 excellent of all virtues, justice. 
 
 1598 Cicero : Be Natura Deorum, L, 2, 4. 
 
 To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves 
 and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery ; often, 
 it is the noblest state in which a man can live in 
 this world. Ruskin : The Stones of Venice. 
 
 1599 The Sea Stories, Ch. 6, Sec. 15. 
 
 Revolutions. 
 
 Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, 
 are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded 
 with precipitation. 
 
 1600 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 Address, House of Commons, Feb. 5, 1863. 
 
 Revolutions are not made: they come. A revo- 
 lution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes 
 out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. 
 
 1601 Wendell Phillips : Orations, 
 
 Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. 
 
 To reject an established government, to break 
 up a political constitution, is revolution. 
 
 1602 Daniel Webster : Sjjeech, 
 United States Senate, Feb. 16, 1833. 
 
 Rewards. 
 
 In the kingdom of God the reward of a great 
 service is the opportunity to render a still greater 
 service. 
 
 1603 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 227 
 
 Rhythm. 
 
 Thus, then, rhythm is a necessary characteristic 
 of all motion. Given the co-existence everywhere 
 of antagonist forces — a postulate which, as we 
 have seen, is necessitated by the form of our ex- 
 perience — and rhythm is an inevitable corollary 
 from the persistence of force. 
 
 1604 Herbert Spencer : 
 Synthetic Philosophy. First Principles. 
 
 Riches. 
 
 Riches have wings, and sometimes they fly 
 away of themselves, sometimes they must be set 
 flying to bring in more. 
 
 1605 Bacon: Essays. Of Riches. 
 
 Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument 
 of life. Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 1606 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 A good name is better than riches. 
 
 1607 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 33. 
 
 To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. 
 
 1608 Thackeray: The Virginians, Ch. 2-1. 
 
 Riddle. 
 
 Men are not going to answer the riddle of the 
 painful earth by building themselves shanties, and 
 living upon beans, and watching ant-fights. 
 
 1609 Howells : Literary Friends and 
 Acquaintance. My First Visit to New Eng. 
 
 Ridicule. 
 
 Ridicule is the stifler of all enerow anion srst 
 those she controls. 
 
 1610 Bulwer-Lytton : Godolpliin. Ch. 51. 
 
228 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared 
 by enthusiasts of every description, and which, 
 from its predominance over such minds, often 
 checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers 
 that which is noble. Walter Scott : 
 
 1611 Quentin Burward, Ch. 34. 
 
 Right. 
 
 Sir, I would rather be right than be President. 
 
 1612 Henry Clay: Speech, 1850 {Referring 
 
 to the Compromise Measures} . 
 
 Right is more beautiful than private affection, 
 and is compatible with universal wisdom. 
 
 1613 Emerson : Representative Men . 
 
 Shakespeare, 
 
 My principle is to do whatever is right, and 
 leave the consequences to Him who has the dis- 
 posal of them. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1614 Letter to Br. George Logan, 1813. 
 
 Let us have faith that right makes might, and in 
 that faith let us dare to do our duty as we under- 
 stand it. Lincoln : The Life, Public Services, 
 
 16 15 and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Righteousness. 
 
 The Saviour comes in the strength of righteous- 
 ness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. 
 Righteousness is thorough ; it is the very spirit 
 of unsparing truth. Phillips Brooks : 
 
 1616 Sermons . III. The Conquer o rfrom Edom . 
 
 Righteousness exalteth a nation. 
 
 1617 Old Testament ; Proverbs xiv. 34. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 229 
 
 Rights. 
 
 If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure 
 what we can. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1618 Letter to James Madison, March, 1789. 
 
 ISTo man's conscience can tell him the rights of 
 another man; they must be known by rational 
 investigation or historical inquiry. 
 
 1619 Dr. Johnson: 
 
 BoswelVs Life of Johnson. II. 234. 
 (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor.} 
 
 Rivers. 
 
 A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love 
 it and live with it before you can know it. 
 
 1620 George William Curtis : 
 
 Lotus- Eating. The Hudson and the Rhine. 
 
 Romance. 
 
 The romance is a gospel of some philosophy or 
 of some religion ; and requires sustained thought 
 on many or some of the deepest subjects, as the 
 only rational alternative to placing ourselves at 
 the mercy of our author. 
 
 1621 Gladstone: Later Gleanings. 
 
 " Robert Elsmere " : Ihe Battle of Belief. 
 
 Every form of human life is romantic. 
 
 1622 Thomas Went worth Higgixsox : 
 
 Atlantic Essays.. A Plea for Culture (1867). 
 
 Rose. 
 
 There is no gathering the rose without being 
 pricked by the thorns. 
 
 1623 Pilpay (or Bidpai) : 
 
 The Two Travellers, Ch, 2, Fable 6. 
 
230 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Royalty. 
 
 Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which 
 cause good or evil times, and which have much 
 veneration, but no rest. 
 
 1624 Bacon: Essays. Of Empire. 
 
 Rural Life. 
 
 The love of rural life, the habit of finding joy- 
 ment in familiar things, that susceptibility to 
 Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in 
 her homeliest nooks and by her commonest 
 sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or 
 its equivalents. Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 1625 Introductory Letter to Charles Dudley 
 
 Warutr's "Summer in a Garden." 
 
 S. 
 Sabbath. 
 
 Sabbath-days, — quiet islands on the tossing 
 sea of life. 
 
 1626 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : 
 
 Fragments. 
 
 The Sabbath was made for man, and not man 
 for the Sabbath. 
 
 1627 New Testament: Mark ii. 27. 
 
 Sacrifice. 
 
 Temporary sacrifices are necessary to save per- 
 manent rights. Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 1628 Letter to Dr. William Euslis, 1809. 
 
 Sadness. 
 
 Those who have known grief seldom seem sad. 
 
 1629 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Endymion, Ch. 4. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 231 
 
 It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of 
 many simples, extracted from many objects, and 
 indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in 
 which my often rumination wraps me in a most 
 humorous sadness. 
 
 1630 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Safety. 
 
 In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 
 
 1631 Old Testament: Proverbs*!. 14. 
 
 Salt. 
 
 Salt is white and pure, — there is something 
 holy in salt. 
 
 1632 Hawthorne: American Note-Book*. 
 
 Salem, Oct. 4, 18-10. 
 
 As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon 
 their tails. 
 
 1633 Swift: Tale of a Tub, Sec. 7. 
 
 Salvation. 
 
 It r s no my view o 1 human life that a man's sent 
 into the warld just to save his soul, an' creep out 
 again. An 1 I said I wad leave the savin' o 1 mv 
 soul to Him that made my soul ; it was in richt 
 gude keeping there, I'd warrant. 
 
 1634 Charles Kingsley: Alton Locke, Ch. 33. 
 
 Sarcasm. 
 
 The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with con- 
 tempt. ... It is the sneer in the satire, or the 
 ridicule that galls and wounds. 
 
 1635 Washington Gladden: Things (fid 
 and New*. VII. The Taming of the Tongue. 
 
232 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Satan. 
 
 Now there was a day when the sons of God 
 came to present themselves before the Lord, and 
 Satan came also among them. 
 
 1G36 Old Testament: Job i. 6. 
 
 Satiety. 
 
 There is no pleasure the constant enjoyment of 
 which does not breed satiety. 
 
 1637 Pliny the Elder: 
 
 Natural History, xii., 40. 
 Satire. 
 
 Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do 
 generally discover everybody's face but their own, 
 which is the chief reason for that kind reception it 
 meets with in the world. Swift : 
 
 1638 The Battle of the Books. Preface. 
 
 Satirists. 
 
 Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, 
 not through love. 
 
 1639 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 72. 
 
 Satisfaction. 
 
 Every real need is stilled, and every vice is 
 stimulated by satisfaction. 
 
 16-10 Amiel: Journal, Dec. 15, 1859. 
 
 . (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 
 Scandal. 
 
 A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand 
 oils the wheels as they run. Ouida : 
 
 1641 Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos. Moths. 
 
 Schemes. 
 
 Men's schemes are ruined oft by want of 
 thought. 
 
 1642 Menander: Monosticha, 15. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 233 
 
 Schisms. 
 
 If in criticising and deploring schisms it is un- 
 fair not to take into account the advantages that 
 have been derived from them, so it is also unsren- 
 erous to speak of them as having had their origin 
 in a desire for division or in a blind devotion to 
 metaphysical and trivial doctrinal distinctions. 
 
 1643 George C. Lorimer: 
 
 Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. 
 
 Scholars. 
 
 A great scholar, in the highest sense of the 
 term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite 
 memory, but also on an infinite and electrical 
 power of combination ; bringing together from 
 the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrec- 
 tion, what else were dust from dead men's bones, 
 into the unity of breathing life. 
 
 1 6-4-4 De Quixcey: Essays. On Pope. 
 
 The mind of the scholar, if you would have it 
 large and liberal, should come in contact with 
 other minds. It is better that his armor should be 
 somewhat bruised by rude encounters, even, than 
 hang forever rusting on the wall. 
 
 1645 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. i., Ch. 8. 
 
 Schoolmaster. 
 
 The Schoolmaster is abroad ! and I trust more 
 to him, armed with his primer, than I do to the 
 soldier in full military array, for upholding and 
 extending the liberties of his country. 
 
 1646 Lord Brougham: 
 Speech in the House of Commons, Jan. 29, 1828. 
 
 Why are we never quite at ease in the presence 
 of a schoolmaster ? — because we are conscious 
 
234 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 that he is not quite at his ease in ours. . . . He 
 comes like Gulliver from among his little people, 
 and he cannot lit the stature of his understanding to 
 yours. He cannot meet you on the square. . . . 
 He is so used to teaching that he wants to be teach- 
 ing you. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 
 
 1647 Old and New Schoolmaster. 
 
 Science. 
 
 Science has not found a substitute for God. 
 
 1648 Henry Drummond: 
 
 The New Evangelism. 
 Science does not know its debt to imaoination. 
 
 1649 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. 
 
 Poetry and Imagination. 
 In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in 
 the latter poetry has become science. 
 
 1650 Lowell : Among My Books. Witchcraft. 
 
 The work of science is to substitute facts for 
 appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. 
 
 1651 Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. 
 
 The Fall, Ch. 2, Sec. 8. 
 
 Science is the great antidote to the poison of 
 enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith : 
 
 1652 The Wealth of Nations, Bk. v., Pt. iii. 
 
 Science is organized knowledge. 
 
 1653 Herbert Spencer: Education, Ch. 2. 
 
 Science, however, like Religion, has but very 
 incomplete^ fulfilled its office. As Religion has 
 fallen short of its function in so far as it has been 
 irreligious ; so has Science fallen short of its 
 function in so far as it has been unscientific. 
 
 1654 Herbert Spencer: Synthetic 
 Philosophy. First Principles, Ch. 5, Sec. 29. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 235 
 
 Scorn. 
 
 As we scorn them who scorn us, so the con- 
 tempt of the world (not seldom) makes men 
 proud. 
 
 1655 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 12:3. 
 
 Scrivener. 
 
 A votary of the desk — a notched and cropt 
 scrivener — one that sucks his substance, as cer- 
 tain sick people are said to do, through a quill. 
 
 1656 Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia. 
 
 Oxford in the Vacation. 
 Sculpture. 
 
 The beauty of a plastic work is, above all, 
 plastic; and an art always degenerates when, 
 discarding its own peculiar means for exciting 
 interest, it borrows those of another art. 
 
 1657 Taixe : The Ideal in Art. 
 
 Sea. 
 
 The sea has no appreciation of great men, but 
 knocks them about like the small fry. 
 
 1658 Dickens: Bleak^Housc, Ch. 12. 
 I do not want to be buried in the ground when I 
 
 die. But bury me, rather, in the deep blue sea, 
 where the coral rocks shall be my pillow, and the 
 seaweeds shall be my winding-sheet, and where 
 the waves of the ocean shall sing my requiem for 
 ever and ever. Rev. Edward T. Taylor 
 
 1659 (Father Taylor) : Incidents and 
 Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor by 
 
 Rev. Gilbert Haren and Hon. Thomas 11 u sst 11. 
 
 Seclusion. 
 
 I want to hide away in deeper depths of seclu- 
 sion, where I can wear overalls if 1 want to, and 
 
236 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 cowhide boots, mount or try to mount a bicycle in 
 my own grounds, and entertain the Wild Man of 
 Borneo if he should "just come to town," without 
 a chorus of invidious comment. 
 
 1660 Kate Sanborn: 
 Abandoning an Adopted Farm, Ch. 1. 
 
 Secrecy. 
 
 Three may keep a secret, if two of them are 
 dead. 
 
 1661 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's AL 
 
 If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up 
 in frankness. Alexander Smith: 
 
 1662 Drectmlhorp. On the Writing of Essays. 
 
 Secrets. 
 
 A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every 
 human creature is constituted to be that profound 
 secret and mystery to every other. A solemn con- 
 sideration, when I enter a great city by night, that 
 every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses 
 its own secret ; that every room in every one of 
 them encloses its own secret ; that every beating- 
 heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts 
 there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to 
 the heart nearest it ! 
 
 1663 Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities, Ch. 3. 
 
 Seditions. 
 
 The surest way to prevent seditions (if the 
 times do bear it) is to take away the matter of 
 them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to 
 tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it 
 on fire. Bacon : 
 
 1664 Essays. Of Seditions and Troubles. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 237 
 
 Self-Conceit 
 
 Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. 
 
 1665 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Self-Confidence. 
 
 Self-confidence is either a petty pride in onr 
 own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and 
 privileges as "one of God's children. 
 
 1666 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 
 
 XVIII. The Shortness of Life. 
 Self-Conquest. 
 
 No man is such a conqueror as the man who has 
 defeated himself. Henry Ward Beecher : 
 
 1667 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Self-Consciousness. 
 
 A mirror % is the very foundation of self- 
 consciousness. Auerbach : 
 
 1668 On the Heights. {Bennett, Translator.) 
 
 Self-Deceit. 
 
 Self-deceit is the veiled image of unknown evil, 
 before which luxury and satiety lie prostrate. 
 
 1669 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry . 
 
 Self-Denial. 
 
 Self-denial is indispensable to a strong charac- 
 ter, and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a 
 religious stock, — from consciousness of obliera- 
 tion and dependence upon God. 
 
 1670 Theodore Parker: 
 
 Ten Sermons of Religion. 
 
 Self-Esteem. 
 
 
 A self-made man ? 
 
 Yes ; and worships his 
 
 creator. 
 
 
 1671 
 
 Henry Clapp: A Jest. 
 
238 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I look upon the too good opinion tjiat man has 
 of himself to be the nursing-mother of all the false 
 opinions, both public and private. 
 
 1672 Montaigne: Essays, Bk. ii., Cli. 17. 
 
 (Hazlitt, Translator.} 
 Self-Go vernment. 
 
 Self-government assumes, not that every man 
 can safely govern himself, but first that it is safer 
 to leave every man to govern himself than to put 
 any man under the government of another man ; 
 or any -class of men under the government of 
 another class. 
 
 1673 Lyman Abbott : Problems of Life. 
 The right of self-government does not compre- 
 hend the government of others. 
 
 1674 Thomas Jefferson : Official Opinion. 
 
 Self -Help. 
 
 God helps them that help themselves. 
 
 1675 Benjamin Franklin: Poor RichairVs Al. 
 
 God gives every bird its food, but does not throw 
 it into the nest. 
 
 1676 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Gold-Foil. VII. Providence. 
 Self-Improvement. 
 
 The safest principle through life, instead of re- 
 forming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. 
 
 1677 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. 
 
 Self-Interest. 
 
 Self-interest is the most ingenious and persua- 
 sive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, 
 while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn 
 prejudices operate in their greatest force. 
 
 1678 Bryant : Prose Writings. Lectures on 
 
 Poetry. The Value and Uses of Poetry. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 239 
 
 Selfishness. 
 
 Selfishness at the expense of others 1 happiness 
 is de monism. 
 
 1679 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 The same people who can deny others every- 
 thing are famous for refusing themselves nothing. 
 
 1680 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. 
 Catherine the Second of Russia. 
 
 Self -Knowledge. 
 
 Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of 
 me ; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass : so 
 that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of 
 myself. 
 
 1681 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Self-Love. 
 
 The way to get out of self-love is to love God. 
 
 1682 Phillips Brooks : Sermons. 
 XX. The Posiliuencss of Divine Life. 
 
 O villanous ! I have looked upon the world for 
 four times seven years ! and since I could dis- 
 tinguish between a benefit and an injury I never 
 found a man that knew how to love himself. 
 
 1683 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Self-Praise. 
 
 There is, perhaps, one thing still more nauseat- 
 ing than the world's apathy, and that is its self- 
 praise ; its admiration of its own charities, so 
 miserably insignificant beside the extravagance 
 of its own pleasures. 
 
 1684 Ouida: Critical Studies, 
 
 The Quality of Mercy. 
 
240 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Self-Reproach. 
 
 I will chide no breather in the world but my- 
 self, against whom I know most faults. 
 
 1685 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act in.. Sc. 2. 
 
 Self-Respect. 
 
 Self-respect, — that corner-stone of all virtue. 
 
 1686 Sir John Herschel: 
 
 Address, Jan. 29, 1833. 
 
 A man who is not ashamed of himself need not 
 be ashamed of his early condition. 
 
 1687 Daniel Webster: 
 Speech, Saratoga, N. F., Aug. 12, 1840. 
 
 Self-Righteousness, 
 
 Whoever is acquainted with the nature of man- 
 kind in general, or the propensity of his own 
 heart in particular, must acknowledge that self- 
 righteousness is the last idol that is rooted out of 
 his heart. George Whitefield : 
 
 1688 Sermons. Self- Righteousness. 
 
 Self-Sacrifice. 
 
 In this world it is not what we take up, but what 
 we give up, that makes us rich. 
 
 1689 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. 
 
 The self-sacrifice of the Christian is always an 
 echo of the self-sacrifice of Christ. 
 
 1690 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. 
 XX. The Fositiveness of the Divine Life. 
 
 Sensuality. 
 
 Sensuality is the grave of the soul. 
 
 1691 William Ellery Channing: 
 
 Note-Book. Evil. Sin. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 241 
 
 Service. 
 
 Masters, give unto your servants — not that 
 which is the least you can give, the least you can 
 get the service rendered for, the least possible 
 wage, but that which is just and equal. We 
 must have just and noble men, and God-fearing- 
 men, for employers and for employed. Then the 
 industrial problem is solved, and not before. 
 
 1692 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life 
 The world's servant must prove to the world 
 
 that he can serve it. The world must compensate 
 him at its estimate and not at his own. 
 
 1693 Edward E.Hale: Address before 
 the Annual Convention of Alpha Delta Phi, 1871. 
 
 Shadows. 
 
 What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue ! 
 
 1694 Burke : Speech at Bristol on 
 
 Declining the Poll, 1780. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Of the scope of Shakespeare I will say only, 
 that the intellectual measure of every man since 
 born in the domains of creative thought may be 
 assigned to him according to the degree in which 
 he has been taught by Shakespeare. 
 
 1695 Ruskix : Sesame and Lilies. 
 
 Of the Mystery of Life. 
 
 Shame. 
 
 Where shame is, there is fear. 
 
 1696 Milton : The ficason of Church 
 Government Against Prclaty, Ch. 3 
 
 Shiftlessness. 
 
 Shiftlessness is mostly only another name for 
 aimlessness. 
 
 1697 Charles H. Parkitcjrst: Sermons. 
 
242 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Shipwreck. 
 
 The man who has suffered shipwreck shudders 
 even at a calm sea. 
 
 1698 Ovid: Epislolce ex Ponto, ii., 7, 8. 
 
 Silence. 
 
 Silence never shows itself to so great an advan- 
 tage as when it is made the reply to calumny and 
 defamation, provided that we give no just occasion 
 for them. 
 
 1699 Addison: The Taller. No. 133. 
 
 The great silent man ! Looking around on the 
 noisy inanity of the world, — words with little 
 meaning, actions with little worth, — one loves to 
 reflect on the great Empire of Silence. 
 
 1700 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as King. 
 
 There are some silent people who are more in- 
 teresting than the best talkers. 
 
 1701 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Endymion, Ch. 35. 
 
 Your very silence shows that you agree. 
 
 1702 Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulide, 1142. 
 
 Silence gives consent. 
 
 1703 Oliver Goldsmith: 
 
 The Good-Matured Man, Act ii. 
 
 Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and 
 better than any speech. 
 
 1704 Plutarch : Morals. On Education. 
 
 ( Shilleto , Translator.) 
 Similarity. 
 
 Like begets like the world over. 
 
 1705 A. Bronson Alcott : Table- Talk. 
 
 III. Pursuits. Nobility. 
 
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 Simulation. 
 
 Simulation is a vice rising either of a natural 
 falseness, or fearfulness, or of a mind that hath 
 some main faults, which because a man must 
 needs disguise, it maketh him practise simulation 
 in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure ! 
 
 1706 Bacon: Essays. 
 
 Of Simulation and Dissimulation. 
 
 Sin. 
 
 Our sins are more easily remembered than our 
 good deeds. 
 
 1707 Democritus: (Stobceus, Florilegium 
 
 xlvi. 47). 
 
 Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. 
 
 1708 Le Sage: Gil Bias : Bk. vii., Ch. 3. 
 
 {Smollett, Translator.) 
 
 Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new 
 invention. 
 
 1709 E. P. Whipple: Essays and Reviews . 
 
 Romance of Rascality. 
 
 Sincerity. 
 
 Private sincerity is a public welfare. 
 
 1710 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 
 
 Individualism. 
 
 Sincerity is the way to heaven. The attainment 
 of sincerity is the way of man. 
 
 1711 Confucius: The Doctrine of the Mean, 
 
 Ch. 20, Sec. 18. (Lcggc, Translator.) 
 
 Sincerity is impossible unless it pervade the 
 whole being ; and the pretence of it saps the very 
 foundation of character. 
 
 1712 Lowell: My Study Windows, Pope. 
 
244 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Singing. 
 
 Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of 
 this world : it is not for the law. Singers are 
 merry, and free from sorrows and cares. 
 
 1713 Martin Luther: Table-Talk. 
 Of Universities, Arts, etc. Xo. 839. 
 
 For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and 
 singing of anthems. 
 
 1714 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Skill. 
 
 There is always a best way of doing everything, 
 if it be to boil an egg. 
 
 1715 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Behavior. 
 
 Sky. 
 
 Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has 
 done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for 
 the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and 
 teaching him, than in any other of her works, and 
 it is just the part in which we least attend to her. 
 
 1716 Ruskin: Modern Painters, Pt. ii., Ch. 1. 
 
 Slander. 
 
 Slanderers I have thought it best to leave to the 
 scourge of public opinion. 
 
 1717 Thomas Jefferson: 
 Letter to Be Witt Clinton, 1807. 
 
 If slander be a snake, it is a winged one : it 
 flies as well as creeps. Douglas Jerrold : 
 
 1718 Specimens of Jerrold" s Wit. 
 
 Enemies carry about slander, not in the form in 
 which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men 
 is everlasting : even then does it survive when 
 you would suppose it to be dead. 
 
 1719 Plautus: The Persian, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
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 Slavery. 
 
 Slavery they can have everywhere. It is a 
 weed that grows in every soil. Burke : 
 
 1720 Speech, March 22, 1775. 
 On Conciliation with America. 
 
 Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no 
 freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. 
 
 1721 Hinton Rowan Helper: 
 
 The Impending Crisis of the South. 
 
 I tremble for my country when I reflect that 
 God is jast; that his justice cannot sleep forever; 
 that considering numbers, nature, and natural 
 means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, 
 an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; 
 that it may become probable by supernatural inter- 
 ference! The Almighty has no attribute which 
 can take side with us in such a contest. 
 
 1722 Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia. 
 
 Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his 
 enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of 
 human nature, the desire of bettering one's condi- 
 tion is the mainspring of effort. The first touch 
 of slavery snaps this spring. 
 
 1723 Horace Mann; Slavery, Letters, and 
 Speeches. Speech U. S. House of Rep., 1848. 
 
 None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled 
 by, his passions. Pythagoras : 
 
 1724 (Stobceus, Florilegium. xviii., 23). 
 
 The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to 
 oneself. Seneca : 
 
 1725 Natural Questions, iii., Praefatio, 17. 
 
 Our new government is founded upon exactly 
 the opposite idea [the assumption of the equality 
 
246 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 of races] ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone 
 rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not 
 equal to the white man, that slavery — subordina- 
 tion to the superior race — is his natural and 
 normal condition. 
 
 1726 Alexander H. Stephens : Address 
 
 at Savannah, Ga., March 21, 1861. 
 
 Where slavery is there liberty cannot be, and 
 where liberty is there slavery cannot be. 
 
 1727 Charles Sumner: 
 
 Slavery and the Rebellion. 
 
 Sleep. 
 
 Blessings light on him who first invented this 
 same sleep ! It covers a man all over, thoughts 
 and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the hungry, 
 drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold 
 for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases 
 all the pleasures of the world cheap, aud the 
 balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the 
 fool and the wise man, even. There is only one 
 thing, which somebody once put into my head, 
 that I dislike in sleep ; it is, that it resembles 
 death ; there is very little difference between a 
 man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep. 
 
 1728 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 68. 
 
 (Lockharl, Translator.} 
 
 Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. 
 
 1729 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. ii., Ch. 70. 
 
 (Jar vis, Translator . ) 
 
 Much sleep is not required by nature, either for 
 our souls or bodies, or for the actions in which 
 they are concerned. Plato : 
 
 1730 Laws vii. 13 (Stephens, p. 808. b). 
 
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 And I pray you let none of your people stir me : 
 I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 
 
 1731 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Aet iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Slip. 
 
 There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. 
 
 1732 Hazlitt : English Proverbs. 
 
 Slothfulness. 
 
 Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor 
 wears, while the used key is alwa3 T s bright. 
 
 1733 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 Sluggards. 
 
 Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom ; 
 but writers might better be sent to the spider, — 
 not because he works all night, and watches all 
 day, but because he works unconsciously. 
 
 1734 Henrv Ward Beecher : Introductory 
 
 Letter to Charles Dudley Warner's 
 " Summer in a Garden" 
 Smiles. 
 
 There are few faces that can afford to smile : a 
 smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, 
 often a contortion. 
 
 1735 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Tancrecl, Bk. ii., Ch. 7. 
 
 A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful 
 
 with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without 
 
 the dew ? The tear is rendered by the smile 
 
 precious above the smile itself. 
 
 1736 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Dante and Gemma Donati. 
 Smoking. 
 
 lie [Lowell] had been smoking the pipe he 
 loved, and he put it back in his mouth presently. 
 
248 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 as if he found himself at greater ease with it when 
 he began to chat. Howells : 
 
 1737 Literary Friends and Acquaintance, 
 
 My First Visit to New England. 
 Sneer. 
 
 Who can refute a sneer ? 
 
 1738 William Paley: Moral Philosophy. 
 
 Bk. v.. Ch. 9. 
 Snobs. 
 
 An immense percentage of Snobs. I believe, is 
 to be found in every rank of this mortal life. 
 
 1739 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of 
 
 Snobs. Prefatory Remarks. 
 
 That which we call a Snob, by any other name 
 would still be snobbish. Thackeray : 
 
 1740 Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. 
 
 Society. 
 
 Society is a place in which we interchange life. 
 — at least it ought to be : a place where I give 
 you my thoughts, and you give me your thoughts : 
 I give you my experience, you give me your ex- 
 perience ; I give you something of my life, you 
 give me something of your life. 
 
 1741 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides 
 his real character, and reveals it by hiding. 
 
 1742 Emerson : Worsh ip . 
 
 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the 
 manhood of every one of its members. Society is 
 a joint-stock company, in which the members 
 agree, for the better securing of his bread to each 
 shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture 
 of the eater. 
 
 1743 Emerson : Essays. Self-Reliance. 
 
DI« riONABY OF I I - 
 
 Human society is made up of partialiti 3. 
 citizen has an interest and a I - \vn. 
 
 which, if followed out to the extreme, would les 
 no room for any other citizen. 
 
 1744 Emerson: Miscellanies, IF 
 Men would not live long in society they 
 
 not the dup - I tear. 
 
 1745 La Rochefoucauld: I. 
 
 No. 87. 
 Society is no comfort to one no: - : iable. 
 
 1746 " Shaks. : Oymbeline, Act : ... Sc. 2. 
 
 Soil. 
 
 The difference between soil and society is 
 dent. We bury decay in the int in it 
 
 the perishing: we teed it with offensive refuse: 
 but nothing grows out of it that is not clean : if 
 gives us back life and beauty for our rubbish. 
 Society returns us what we give it. 
 
 1747 Charles Dudley Warnkb : 
 My Sum/ farden. Ninetet 
 
 Soldiers. 
 
 Nothing is more binding than the friendship 
 companions-in-arms . 
 
 174^ George S. Hillard : 
 
 Life and Camper, is y - I M Jlellan. 
 
 I should think he was coming the old soldi 
 over me. and keeping up his ^ame. 
 
 1749 WalterScott .. 18. 
 
 Fie. my lord, tie ! a soldier and afear'd ? 
 
 17" Shaks. : M . Act v.. Sc 1. 
 
 Methinks it were meete that any one. before he 
 come to be a captayne. should have been a soldier. 
 
 1751 Spenser : - md. 
 
250 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Solicitude. 
 
 You are solicitous of the good-will of the mean- 
 est person, uneasy at his ill-will. 
 
 1752 Emerson: Essays. 
 
 Mrs. Todgers looked a little warm by cares of 
 gravy and other such solicitudes arising out of her 
 establishment. 
 
 1753 Dickens: Martin Chazzlewit, Ch. 32. 
 
 Solidity. 
 
 The idea of solidity we receive by our touch ; 
 and it arises from the resistance which we find m 
 a body to the entrance of an} other body into the 
 place it possesses until it has left it. 
 
 1751 Locke: Human Under standing, 
 
 Bk. ii., Ch. 4. 
 
 Solitude. 
 
 Little do men perceive what solitude is, and 
 how far it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company. 
 
 1755 Bacon: Essays. Of Friendship. 
 
 Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is 
 like light, the mightiest of agencies ; for solitude 
 is essential to man. All men come Into this world 
 alone ; all leave it alone. 
 
 1756 De Quincev: Confessions of 
 an English Ojrium- Eater. Sequel. Pt. i. 
 
 Solitude is as needful to the imagination as 
 society is wholesome for the character. 
 
 1757 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryden. 
 
 Never does the soul feel so far from human life 
 as when a man finds himself alone in the vistas of 
 the moon, either in the streets of a sleeping city, 
 
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 the avenues of the woods, or by the border of the 
 sea. 
 
 1758 Elizabeth Stoddard: Two Men, Ch. 16. 
 
 Song. 
 
 All deep things are song. 
 
 1759 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Poet. 
 What is the voice of song, when the world lacks 
 the ear of taste ? 
 
 1760 Hawthorne: 
 
 The Snow Image and Other Twice lold Tales. 
 All great song, from the first day when human 
 lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. 
 
 1761 Ruskin : Ihe Queen of the Air, Sec. 48. 
 
 I never heard the old song of Percy and Doug- 
 lass, that I found not my heart moved more than 
 with a trumpet. 
 
 1762 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. 
 
 A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now 
 and then, does uot misbecome a monarch. 
 
 1763 Horace Walpole : Letter, 1774. 
 
 To Sir Horace Mann. 
 Sons. 
 
 Adam's sons are my brethren. 
 
 1764 Shaks. : Much Ado, Actii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sophister. 
 
 The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, 
 economists, and calculators has come. 
 
 1765 Burke: Revolution in France. 
 
 Sophistry. 
 
 Men of great conversational powers almost 
 universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and 
 
252 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 exaggeration which deceives, for the moment, 
 both themselves and their auditors. 
 
 1766 Macaulay: Athenian Orators. 
 
 Sophomoric. 
 
 They sat one day drawn thus close together, 
 sipping and theorizing, speculating upon the 
 nature of things in an easy, bold, sophomoric way. 
 
 1767 G. W. Cable: Old Creole Days, p. 13. 
 
 Some verbose Fourth of July oration, or some 
 sophomorical newspaper declamation. 
 
 1768 Harriet Beecher Stowe: 
 
 Oldlown Papers, p. 435. 
 
 Sorrow. 
 
 We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of 
 other men, and from their sorrows likewise we 
 derive our joys. 
 
 1769 Owen Felltham : Resolves, Pt. i. 
 
 The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to 
 refine and elevate the mind, 
 
 1770 Washington Irving: 
 
 The Sketch- Book. Rural Funerals. 
 
 Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 
 will cleanse and brighten it. 
 
 1771 Dr. Johnson; Works. 
 Mme. D'Arblaifs Diary. VII., 357. 
 
 Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows 
 which the world knows not ; and oftentimes we 
 call a man cold when he is only sad. 
 
 1772 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iii., Ch. 4. 
 
 Sorrow, the great idealizer. 
 
 1773 Lowell: Among My Books. Spenser. 
 
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 Though sorrow must come, where is the ad- 
 vantage of rushing to meet it? It will be time 
 enough to grieve when it comes ; meanwhile hope 
 for better things. 
 
 1774 Seneca: EpistoUz, xiii., I". 
 
 Affliction ma}' one clay smile again ; and till 
 then, sit thee down, sorrow ! 
 
 1775 Shaks. : Loves L. Lost, Act i,, Sc. 1. 
 
 Soul. 
 
 The soul is one with its faith. 
 
 1776 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. 
 
 Materialism. 
 
 Everywhere the human soul stands between a 
 hemisphere of light and another of darkness ; on 
 the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, 
 Necessity and Free Will. 
 
 1777 Carlyle : Essays. Goethe's Works. 
 
 (Foreign Review. No. ii. 1828.) 
 
 The human soul, being an offshoot of the divine 
 mind, can be compared with nothing else, if it be 
 not irreverent to say so, than with God himself. 
 
 1778 Cicero : Tusculanm Disptdatianes, 
 
 v.. 38. 
 The one thing in the world of value is the 
 active soul. 
 
 1779 Emerson : Misce lla n 
 
 The American Schoi 
 
 The soul never grows old. 
 
 1780 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. iv., Ch. 9. 
 
 Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many 
 years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and he merry. 
 
 1781 New Testament : Luke xii. 19. 
 
254 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 My lord, this is a poor mad soul : . . . and the 
 truth is. poverty hath distracted her. 
 
 1782 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV.. Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sound. 
 
 The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with 
 it : the beech shrieks : the elm sends forth a long, 
 deep groan : the ash pours out moans of thrilling- 
 anguish. Thomas Starr King: 
 
 1783 The JVh ite Hills . Th e Pern ige w asset Va lley . 
 
 Speech. 
 
 All speech, even the commonest speech, has 
 something of song in it. 
 
 1784: Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Poet. 
 
 Speech that leads not to action, still more that 
 hinders it. is a nuisance on the earth. 
 
 1785 Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, 
 First Forty Tears, by Frov.de. Vol. i., Ch. 18. 
 
 The true use of speech is.not so much to express 
 our wants as to conceal them. 
 
 1786 Goldswith: The Bee, Oct. 30, 1759. 
 
 I would be loath to cast away my speech ; for, 
 besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have 
 taken great pains to con it. 
 
 1787 Shaks. : Tic. Xight, Act i.. Sc. 5. 
 
 To me no speech that profits soundeth ill. 
 
 1788 Sophocles: Electro.. 61. 
 
 Spelling. 
 
 Take care that you never spell a word wrong. 
 Always before you write a word, consider how it 
 is spelled, and. if you do not remember it. turn to 
 
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 a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady 
 to spell well. Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 1789 LetUr to Martha Jefferson, 1783. 
 
 Spirits. 
 
 I believe there is a supernatural and spiritual 
 world, in which human spirits, both good and bad, 
 live in a state of consciousness. I believe that 
 any of these spirits may, according to the order of 
 God, in the laws of their place of residence, have 
 intercourse with this world, and become visible to 
 mortals. Dr. Adam Clarke : Commentary, 
 
 1790 Vol. ii., p. 299. 
 
 Spoils. 
 
 They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the 
 victors belong the spoils of the enemy. 
 
 1791 William L. Marcy: Speech in the 
 
 United States Senate, January, 1832. 
 
 Spring. 
 
 What delights us in the spring is more a sensa- 
 tion than an appearance, more a hope than any 
 visible reality. There is something in the softness 
 of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the 
 very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that 
 caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous 
 weeks of winter. Hamkrton : 
 
 1792 The Sylvan Year. March. 
 
 Stars. 
 
 The chambers of the East are opened in every 
 Land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth 
 with orient pearl. Night, the ancient mother, 
 follows him with her diadem of stars. . . . 
 Bright creatures ! how they gleam like spirits 
 
256 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 through the shadows of innumerable eyes from 
 their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven. 
 
 1793 Carlyle : Thomas Carlyle, 
 First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. i., Ch. 17. 
 
 A star for every State, and a State for ever)' 
 star. Robert C. Wixthrop : Address on 
 
 1794 Boston Common in 1862. 
 
 Statecraft. 
 
 A sceptre once put in the hand, the grip is in- 
 stinctive ; and he who is firmly seated in authority 
 soon learns to think security, and not progress, 
 the highest lesson of statecraft. From the sum- 
 mit of power men no longer turn their eyes up* 
 ward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration 
 sees only one side of every question; possession, 
 many. James Russell Lowell : Among My 
 
 1795 Books . New England Two Centuries Ago . 
 
 Statesmanship. 
 
 I do not depreciate statesmanship. It requires 
 great ability to found states and governments, but 
 only common talent to carry them on. It took 
 Fulton and Watt to create the steam-engine ; but 
 a very ordinary man can engineer a train from 
 Boston to Albany. 
 
 1796 Wendell Phillips : Speeches, 
 Lectures, and Letters. Lincoln's Election. 
 
 Studies. 
 
 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for 
 ability. Their chief use for delight, is in private- 
 ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; 
 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition 
 of business ; for expert men can execute, and per- 
 haps, judge of particulars, one by one ; but the 
 
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 general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of 
 affairs, come best from those that are learned. 
 
 1797 Bacon: Essays. Of Studies. 
 
 Stupidity, 
 
 For a truth, Stupidity is strong, most strong. 
 As the Poet Schiller sings: "Against Stupidity 
 the very gods fight un victorious." There is in it 
 an opulence of murky stagnancy, an inexhausti- 
 bility, a calm infinitude, which will bailie even the 
 gods, — which will say calmly, " Yes, try all 
 your lightnings here ; see whether my dark belly 
 cannot hold them ! " 
 
 1798 Carlyle: Oliver Cromwell's 
 
 Letters and Sjieeches, Ch. 1. 
 Style. 
 
 Style is what gives value and currency to 
 thought. Amiel: Journal, Introduction. 
 
 1799 (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 
 
 Style, after all, rather than thought, is the im- 
 mortal tiling in literature. 
 
 1800 Alexander Smith : Dreamthorp. 
 
 On the Writing of Essays. 
 
 Sublimity. 
 
 One stop above the sublime makes the ridicu- 
 lous ; and one step above the ridiculous makes the 
 sublime again. Thomas Paine: 
 
 1801 Age of Reason , Pt. ii. 
 
 Submission. 
 
 No man is good for anything who has not 
 learned the easy, prompt, cheerful submission of 
 his will to rightful authority. 
 
 1802 Washington Gladden: Things New 
 
 and Old. II. Good Gifts to our Children. 
 
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 Success. 
 
 Success is sweet : the sweeter if long delayed 
 and attained through manifold struggles and 
 defeats. A. Bronson Alcott : 
 
 1803 Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Misfortune. 
 
 Success is the child of Audacity. 
 
 1804 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Lskander, Ch. 4. 
 In success be moderate. 
 
 1805 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Biehard'sAl. 
 
 Great success is a great temptation. 
 
 1806 Theodore Parker: A Sermon of the 
 
 Moral Dangers Incident to Prosperity. 
 
 The secret of many a man's success in the world 
 resides in his insight into the moods of men, and 
 his tact in dealing with them. 
 
 1807 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 Lessons in Life. Moods and Freimes of Mind. 
 
 Suffering. 
 
 A great part of human suffering has its root in the 
 nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. 
 
 1808 Lowell: Democreiey and Other 
 Aeldresses. Address, Meiy 10, 1884. 
 
 Suicide. 
 
 There is no refuge from confession but suicide ; 
 and suicide is confession. 
 
 1809 Daniel Webster : Argument on the 
 Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830. 
 
 Summer. 
 
 One swallow maketh not summer. 
 
 1810 John Heywood : Proverbes, Pt. ii., Ch. 5. 
 
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 Sun. 
 
 The sun, which passeth through pollutions and 
 itself remains as pure as before. 
 
 1811 Bacon: Advancement of Learning . 
 
 Sunday. 
 
 Sunday is the common people's great liberty- 
 day, and they are bound to see to it that work 
 does not come into it. 
 
 1812 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedi- 
 cated to thought and reverence. 
 
 181B Emerson : Lectures and Biograp)hical 
 
 Sketches. Character. 
 
 Sunlight. 
 
 Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp 
 of autumn. Hawthorne : 
 
 1814 American Note-Nooks. Brook Farm. 
 
 Sunrise. 
 
 And lo! in a flash of crimson splendor, with 
 blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, 
 and heralding his majestic approach, God's sun 
 rises upon the world. Thackeray : 
 
 1815 The Kickleburys on the Rhine. 
 
 Sunset. 
 
 That hour of the day when, face to face, the 
 rising moon beholds the setting sun. 
 
 1816 Longfellow: Hyperion, Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 
 
 Superfluity. 
 
 Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, by 
 competency lives longer. 
 
 1817 Siiaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
260 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Superiority. 
 
 The faults of the superior man are like the 
 eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, 
 and all men see them ; he changes, and all men 
 look up to him. Confucius : 
 
 1818 Analects, Bk. xix., Ch. 21. (Legge, Tr.) 
 
 Superstition. 
 
 There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, 
 when men think to do best if they go farthest from 
 the superstition formerly received ; therefore care 
 would be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) 
 the good be not taken away with the bad, which 
 commonly is done when the people is the reformer. 
 
 1819 Bacon : Essays. Of Superstition. 
 
 The master of superstition is the people. And 
 in all superstition, wise men follow fools. 
 
 1820 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 
 
 Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. 
 
 1821 Burke: Reflections on the Revolution 
 
 in France. 
 
 If modern superstition disturb thee, be thankful 
 it is not Indian and barbarian, that they are not 
 human sacrifices, that they are not Druids. 
 
 1822 Shaftesbury (Anthony, 3d Earl) : 
 The Philosophical Regimen. Deity, p. 29. 
 
 Surrender. 
 
 No other terms than unconditional and imme- 
 diate surrender. I propose to move immediately 
 upon your works. Ulysses S. Grant: 
 
 1823 To Gen. S. B. Buckner, 
 Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. 
 
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 Suspicion. 
 
 Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers, are 
 but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially 
 nourished, and put into men's heads by the tales 
 and whisperings of others, have stings. . 
 
 1824 Bacon: Essays. Of Suspicion. 
 
 Suspicion is very often a useless pain. 
 
 1825 Dr. Johnson: 
 BoswelVs Life of Johnson. III. 135. 
 
 Swearing. 
 
 And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me 
 up for swearing : as if I borrowed mine oaths of 
 him, and might not spend them at my pleasure. 
 
 1826 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Actii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sympathy, 
 
 The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the 
 sympathy of prosperity. 
 
 1827 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 Endymion, Ch. 16. 
 
 Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative 
 about themselves ; they give back reflected images 
 which hide their own depths. 
 
 1828 George Eliot: Leaves from a Note- 
 
 Book. Birth of Tolerance. 
 We are governed by sympathy; and the extent 
 of our sympathy is determined by that of our 
 sensibility. 
 
 1829 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 410. 
 
 There is abundance in this world of that one- 
 sided sympathy which springs from a parti pris, 
 
 but that which is many-sided and perfectly just is 
 very unusual. Ouida : 
 
 1830 Critical Studies. L'bnperieuse Bonte. 
 2189 68 
 
262 DICTIONARY 05 PROSE JUOTATIOHS. 
 
 The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, 
 and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. 
 1831 Buskts" : Lectures on Art. Lecture iii. 
 
 T. 
 
 Table-Talk 
 
 Table talk, to be perfect, shonld be sincere 
 ont bigotry, differing without discord, sc retimes 
 grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points. 
 Iwelli g m jst d - - nable ones, and letting 
 
 aybody speak and be hea: 
 
 IS a Leigh Htm : Table Talk. 
 
 Taciturnity. 
 
 I was once taken np for Jesuit for no other 
 reason than niv profound taciturnity. 
 
 16:: I ~ Steele: Tht Sj - . So. 6. 
 
 Tact. 
 
 Without tad an learn nothing. 
 
 beaches when : silent. Inquirers who 
 
 always inqniring never learn anythh:_ 
 
 1834 Disraeli [Earl o* Bk :») : 
 
 End\ mion, Ch. 61. 
 Tainting : 
 
 Infection spreadeth upon that which is sc Jid. 
 and tainteth it. 
 
 > r Bacon: Essays. Of Envy. 
 
 Therefore, who taints his soul may be said to 
 throw dirt in G - : 
 
 ls3<: Howell : Letters, iv. 
 
 Tale 
 
 We spend our years : - a tale that is :id. 
 1837 Old Testament: Psal? 
 
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 Mark now, how a plain tale shall put 3*011 down. 
 
 1838 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with 
 a tale which holdeth children from play, and old 
 men from the chimney corner. 
 
 1839 Sir Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry . 
 
 Talent. 
 
 Talent is that which is in a man's power. 
 1810 Lowell: Among My Books. 
 
 Boussean and the Sentimentalists. 
 
 Talk, Talkers, Talking 
 
 She is charming to talk to — full of wisdom — 
 
 o 
 
 ripe in judgment — rich in information. 
 
 1841 Charlotte Bronte : Shirley, Ch. 35. 
 
 Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, 
 abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the 
 fact. 
 
 1812 George Eliot- Theophrastus Such, Ch. 6. 
 
 No one would talk much in society if he only 
 knew how often he misunderstands others. 
 
 1843 Goethe : Elective Affinities, Pt. ii., Ch. -1. 
 
 Talk to me is only spading up the ground for 
 rops of thought. I can't answer for what will 
 -urn up. Holmes : 
 
 1SU The Professor at the Breakfast Table, i. 
 
 AVe seldom repent talking too little, but very 
 often talking too much. 
 
 1845 La Bruy&re: Characters. Of Man. 
 
 (Uowe, Translator ) 
 
264 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Long talking begets short hearing, for people 
 go away. 
 
 1846 Bichter : Levana. Sixth Fragment, 
 
 Ch. 4, Sec. 120. 
 
 A gentleman, nurse, that loves- to hear himself 
 talk ; and will speak more in a minute, than he 
 will stand to in a month. 
 
 1847 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 A good old man, sir ; he will be talking. 
 
 1848 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 If they were but a week married they would 
 talk themselves mad. 
 
 1849 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 There are alwa} T s two to a talk, giving and 
 taking, comparing experience and according con- 
 clusions. Robert Louis Stevenson: 
 
 1850 Talks and Talkers, Ch. 1. 
 
 Talkativeness. 
 
 Talkativeness produces many disasters, but in 
 silence there is safety. 
 
 1851 Apollonius: (Stobceus, Florilegium, 
 
 xxxvi., 28). 
 
 I will talk of things heavenly, or things 
 earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; 
 things sacred, or things profane ; things past, or 
 things to come; things foreign, or things at 
 home; tilings more essential, or things circum- 
 stantial ; provided that all be done to our profit. 
 
 1852 John Bunyan: Pilgrimls Progress. 
 
 Whom the disease of talking still once pos- 
 sesseth, he can never hold his peace. Nay, rather 
 
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 than he will not discourse he will hire men to 
 hear him. 
 
 1853 BenJonson: Timber; or, D 
 
 Made upon Men and Matter. 
 
 Tapering. 
 
 Those who seek to thrive merely by falsehood 
 and cunning taper down at last to nothing. 
 
 1854 James Freeman Clarke: 
 
 ilf-Cutture, p. 27 
 Taste. 
 
 Good taste consists first upon fitness. 
 
 1855 George William Curtis: 
 
 The Potiphar Papers. I. Our Best Society. 
 Taste cannot be controlled by law. 
 18" Thomas Jefferson : 
 
 Xotes on a M Unit, 1784. 
 
 Taste is not only a part and an index of mor- 
 ality : — it is the ONLY morality. 
 
 1857 Rusejn: Crown of J\ . ii. 
 
 Traffic, 54. 
 Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in 
 literature, for the best proof of taste, when there 
 is no genius, would be. not to write at all. 
 
 1858 Mme. i>e Stael : Germany. Pt. ii.. 
 Ch. 14. (Wight's revision of Murray's ed.) 
 
 Taverns. 
 
 He who has not been at a tavern knows not 
 what a paradise it is. holy tavern ! O miracu- 
 lous tavern ! — holv, because no carking 
 are there, nor weariness, nor pain : and miracu- 
 lous, because of the spits, which of themsel - 
 turn round and round ! 
 
 1859 Aretino: H y Longfellow, 
 
 ' Bk. iii., Ch. 2. 
 
266 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Taxation. 
 
 Preserve inviolate the fundamental principle, 
 that the people are not to be taxed but by repre- 
 sentatives chosen immediately by themselves. 
 
 1860 Thomas Jefferson : 
 Letter to James Madison, 1787. 
 
 Tea. 
 
 Thank God for tea ! What would the world do 
 without tea ? — how did it exist ? I am glad I was 
 not born before tea. 
 
 1861 Sydney Smith: 
 
 Recipe for Salad, p. 383. 
 
 Teaching. 
 
 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought 
 into the same state or principle in which you are ; 
 a transfusion takes place ; he is you, and you are 
 he ; there is a teaching ; and by no unfriendly 
 chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the 
 benefit. 
 
 1862 Emerson: Essays. Spiritual Laws. 
 
 It is a good divine that follows his own instruc- 
 tions ; I can easier teach twenty what were good 
 to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow 
 mine own teachings. 
 
 1863 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Tears. 
 
 Sympathizing and selfish people are alike given 
 to tears. 
 
 1864 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk. Tears. 
 
 Tears are often to be found where there is 
 little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any 
 tears. Dr ; Johnson: 
 
 1865 Works. IX. 301. (Oxford edition, 1825.) 
 
 i 
 
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 sia, do not dwell long upon the 
 
 cheeks of yonth. Pwain drops easily from the bud. 
 
 ts a the bosoin of the inaturer £ and 
 
 iks down that one only which hath lived its 
 
 day. 
 
 1866 Lakdob _ 
 
 XXVIII. I . 
 
 If you have tears, prepare to shed them n 
 
 1867 Shaks. : Jul. Hi., Sc i . 
 
 Hence were those rears, and hence all that 
 compassion. 
 
 1868 Terence: Andn , A:::.. Sc. 1. 
 
 Temper. 
 
 Men are certainly as much given to ill temper 
 as women : and. if :" u less inclined to tears, 
 they make it up in sulks, which are just as bad. 
 
 1869 >mas Wkntwobth Higgins 
 
 Alphabet. Tempt 
 
 Tlie brain may devise laws for the blood : but a 
 hot temper lea j - : old decree: such a hai 
 is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the roe-_— : 
 good counsel, the cripple. 
 
 187 Shaks. : 31. oj Vi Ael L, S 
 
 Temperance. 
 
 ranee i thing is :~quisite for hap- 
 
 ping-- 
 
 L871 B. R. Haydon: : \ Talk. 
 
 Temptations. 
 
 ind out what your temptat: - . and you 
 will find out largely what yon arc yourself. 
 1872 Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
26S DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Tenderness. 
 
 Want of : -::.-— is want of pans, and is no 
 less a proof of stupidity than depravity. 
 
 1873 Dr. pJohnsox : B 'os well's Life of Johnsc 
 
 II. 122. {George Birkbeck B tor.) 
 
 Terror, 
 
 No divine terror will ever be found in the work 
 of the man who wastes a .-olossal strength in 
 elaborating toys ; : i .. first lesson that terror is 
 sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul. 
 and the shortness of mortal time. 
 
 1874: Ruskot: The Sic 
 
 The Fall, Ch. 3, See. 4: : ». 
 Teutonism. 
 
 I find that the life .: nations is only crowned 
 with success so far as they have Teuton blood in 
 their veins, and so long as they preserve the char- 
 acteristics of that race. 
 
 1875 Bismarck: ( is with 
 Bitmar '- , ' E Poschinger. 
 
 Thankfulness. 
 
 Beggar that I am. I am even poor in thanks. 
 
 1876 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii.. Sc. 2. 
 
 Theft. 
 
 Whether we force the man's property from him 
 by pinching his stomach, or pinching his lingers. 
 makes some difference anatomically: morally, 
 none whatsoever. Ruskin : 
 
 1877 The Two Paths. Lecture v. Sec. 3. 1. 
 
 Theologians. 
 
 I am not speaking against learned and approved 
 professors of theology, for I look up to them with 
 the greatest respect, but against that mean and 
 
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 haughty herd of theologians who think all the 
 writings of all author- are worth nothing compared 
 to themselves. Desiderius Erasmus: 
 
 1878 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 
 
 by Ephraim Emerton. 
 Thinkers. 
 
 In every epoch of the world, the great event, 
 parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a 
 Thinker in the world ? 
 
 1879 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Divinity. 
 
 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker 
 on this planet. 
 
 1880 Emerson: Essays. Circles. 
 
 The greater part of mankind may be divided 
 into two classes: that of shallow thinkers who fail 
 short of the truth : and that of abstruse thinkers 
 who ffo bevond it, Hume : 
 
 1881 Essays. XXIII. Of Commerce. 
 
 Thoreau. 
 
 During his life [Thoreau's] I imagine he would 
 have refused to notice anything so fatiguing as an 
 ordinary German woman, and never would have 
 deigned discourse to me on the themes he loved 
 best; but now his spirit belongs to me, and all he 
 thought, and believed, and felt, and he talks as 
 much and as intimately to me here in my solitude 
 as ever he did to his dearest friends years ago in 
 Concord. Mary A. B. Aknim (Grafix Von) : 
 
 1882 The Solitary Summer. May. 
 
 Thoroughness. 
 
 Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 
 well. Lord Chesterfield : 
 
 1883 Letters to His Son. March 10, 1740. 
 
270 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Slack work is, alas ! so common in a country 
 which is not even half begun, far less half finished, 
 that a man who sets himself to thorough work, 
 whether it be in finishing wagons or in collecting 
 taxes, will find he is every hour arousing the sur- 
 prise of those he works with. 
 
 1884 Edward E. Hale : Up>s and Downs, 
 
 Ch. 11, 
 Thought. 
 
 No thought is beautiful which is not just, and 
 no thought can be just which is not founded on 
 truth. 
 
 1885 Addison : The Spectator. No. 523. 
 
 Thought is parent of the deed. 
 
 1886 Carlyle : Essays. Death of Goethe. 
 
 (Foreign Revieiv, No. ii. 1828.) 
 
 One thought includes all thought, in the sense 
 that a grain of sand includes the universe. 
 
 1887 Coleridge: Table Talk. 
 Additional Table Talk. Thought. 
 
 The thinker is nearer to the source of thought 
 than aught beside. Man stands nearest to God. 
 
 1888 Orville Dewey : On the Validity of 
 our Knowledge of God. Old and New, Vol. ii. 
 
 Thought is the property of him who can enter- 
 tain it, and of him who can adequately place it. 
 
 1889 Emerson : Representative Men. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind 
 of a good man, he doth not roll them under his 
 tongue as a sweet morsel. 
 
 1890 Matthew Henry : Commentaries. 
 Psalm Ixxviii., and Sermon on Uncleanness. 
 
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 The material of thought re-acts upon the thought 
 itself. Lowell: Democracy and Other 
 
 1891 Addresses. Address, Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 Many thoughts are so dependent upon the lan- 
 guage in which they are clothed that they would 
 lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. 
 
 1892 Ruskin: Modern Painters, Pt. i., Sec. 1. 
 
 A woman's thought runs before her actions. 
 
 1893 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 Mind is the great lever of all things ; human 
 
 thought is the process by which human ends are 
 alternately answered. Daniel Webster: 
 
 1894 Address, Charlestown, Mass., 1825. 
 
 Thunder. 
 
 They will not let my play run ; and yet they 
 steal my thunder. John Dennis : 
 
 1895 Biograjyhia Brilannica, Vol. v., p. 103. 
 
 Tide. 
 
 "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. 
 Peggotty. '■- except when the tide's pretty nigh out. 
 They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — 
 not properly born, till Hood. He's a going out 
 with the tide. It's ebb at half arter three, slack 
 water half-an-hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll 
 hold his own till past the flood, and go out with 
 the next tide." . . . And, it being low water, he 
 went out with the tide. 
 
 1896 Dickens: David Copperfield, Ch. 30. 
 
 Time. 
 
 Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted 
 can never conduce to money well managed. 
 
 1897 Bulwer-Lytton : Caxtoniana. 
 Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. 
 
272 DICTIONARY J PROSE JUOTATIOIffS- 
 
 Time! Time it brings forth and de- 
 vours And the roaring flood ©i existence rushes 
 
 on : i ever - i-iilar, forever changing 
 
 189$ Carlylz Thy::: . . " " _-". - 
 
 1 F Vol. ii., Ch. 17. 
 
 When a thought : Plato becomes a thought to 
 
 me. — when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar 
 
 fixes mine, time is nomo:: 
 
 1- Emersoh. Essays. History. 
 
 But dost thou love life ? then do not squander 
 time, for that is the stall life k _iade of. 
 
 190C Benxamdi Fraxrltx : Poor Richard AI 
 
 Time flies "—: us. ::u: le^Tes ::> sh: : ;-,- ' ehir 
 
 1901 Hawtmorxe T keMt Fjun, Ch.2±. 
 
 What is Time 7 he shadow on the dial, the 
 striking : the lock, the running of the sand. — 
 
 day and night, summer and winter, months, years, 
 : :: -. —these are but arbitrary and outward 
 signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. 
 Time is the life of the soul. 
 
 1902 1 :zi: Bypi i, Bk. ii., Ch. 6. 
 
 T:-.us :_t "„;_:_;_ ;: ;i— ~ ::riu^s in his 
 
 1 Shaks T N Act Se. 1. 
 
 Time passes, Tiine the consoler, Time the" 
 anodyne. Xha : :zi ^ 
 
 1904 Sketches and Travels in London. 
 
 Toad. 
 
 The toad at once establishes the most intimate 
 
 relations with the bug. H is . -ore to see 
 
 such unity among th<r I r animals. The diffi- 
 
 > make the toad stay and watch the hill. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PI ^ 
 
 If yon know tout toad it is all right. If von do 
 not. yon ninst bnild a tight fence ronnd the plants, 
 which the toad cannot jnmp over. 
 
 19 LAKLES DUDOLKT WaSHKB : 
 
 My Summer in a Garden. Third Week. 
 
 To-day. 
 
 One to-day is worth two to-mony w a 
 
 1906 Benjamin" Yr anextv : Poor Biehara _ 
 
 Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. 
 
 1907 Euripides: Licymnius. Fragment. ^"~ 
 
 Toleration. 
 
 How shall we ever learn toleration for what 
 do not believe? The last lesson a man ever 
 learns is. that liberty of thonght and speech is the 
 right for all mankind : that the man who denies 
 ay article of onr creed is to be allowed to 
 preach jnst as often and jnst as lond as we our- 
 selves klx Phuxips: 
 1909 Speeches, Lectures* and I 
 
 The Boston Mob. 
 
 1 scorn and scont the word " toleration: " it is 
 an insolent term. No man. properly speak; _ 
 tolerates another. I do not tolerate ■ Catholic, 
 neither does he tolerate me. We are equal, and 
 acknowledge each other's right : that is the 
 rect statement. 
 
 V.'vypELL PhOLLIPS Sj 
 
 and Letters. Darnel O'Connell. 
 To-morrow. 
 
 •• In every to-day walks a to-niony 
 have a right to look to yon. yonng men. to tell ns 
 what is the to-morrow that walks in to-day. N : 
 
2,4 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 : ;reate a to-morrow our of your own imaginings, 
 
 nor to insist that we shall always live in to-day : 
 but to rind the to-mon to-day, and to 
 
 h as how to rind it for >urseTv is. 
 
 19K Lymax Abbott: 1 " "-. o < L .;■:. 
 
 Tongue. 
 
 Keep a guard on your tongue, est over 
 
 the wine. 
 
 1911 Chilo: (Li-;>.>; >/> La*: tins. i.. 3, 2, 
 Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongs 
 
 1912 Hesiod: ^' : ^: : , and 1>\ >. 719. 
 
 Tools. 
 
 There is no jesting with edge tc ids 
 
 1912 Bkaumont a\d Fletcher: 
 
 Hit Li '.'■: French La '. Act iv., Sc. 7. 
 Trade. 
 
 de is a social a : 
 
 1914 Jonx Stuart Mux: 
 
 On Liberty . Apph 
 
 Tradition. 
 
 The effigies and splendors :: n .are not 
 
 meant te - the energies or the development 
 
 gorons and various nation. They are not 
 meant be hoi I in mortmain the proper territory of 
 human intelligence and righte : as . - i. They 
 
 live and teach their lessons in our annals. 
 have their own worshipj srs and their own shrin 
 but the earth is not theirs nor the fulness there 
 
 1915 Loud Rosjebert: Address to the 
 
 St: ~ : ::>.":: A: : - "-. . A. ; •: l s ^ 
 Traitors. 
 
 The man who right- against his own eovm:: 
 nev ro. Victob Hugo: 
 
 ety-Three, PL i i. 9 
 
 (Benedict, T 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 275 
 
 An arrant traitor as any's in the universal 'odd, 
 or in France, or in England ! 
 
 1917 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. B. 
 
 Tranquillity. 
 
 Tranquillity of mind depends much on ourselves. 
 and greatly on due reflection ;i how much pain 
 have cost us the evils which have never happened.** 
 
 1918 Thomas Jefferson: 
 Letter to William Short. 1814. 
 
 Translations. 
 
 Something must be lost in all transfusion, that 
 is, in all translations : but the sense will remain, 
 which would otherwise be lost, or at least maimed, 
 when it is scarce intelligible, and that but to a 
 few. 
 
 1919 Drydex: Fables. Preface. 
 
 A translator is to be like his author : it is not 
 his business to excel him. 
 
 1920 Dr. Johnson: Lives of the Poets. 
 
 Travel. 
 
 Travelling is no fool's errand to him who carries 
 his eves and itinerary along with him. 
 
 1921 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 
 
 II. Enterprise. Travelling. 
 
 Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of educa- 
 tion ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that 
 travelleth into a country, before he hath some 
 entrance into the language, goeth to school, and 
 not to travel. 
 
 1922 Bacon: Essays. Of Travel. 
 
276 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Travellers. 
 
 Every traveller has a home of his own, and he 
 learns to appreciate it the more from his wander- 
 ing. 
 
 1923 Dickens : Speeches, Literary and Social. 
 
 Travellers must be content. 
 
 1924 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii. ? Sc. 4. 
 
 Treason. 
 
 Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of con- 
 fidence. Burke : Remarks on the 
 
 1925 Policy of the Allies with Respect to France. 
 
 Csesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his 
 Cromwell — and George the Third — (" Treason ! " 
 cried the Speaker) — may profit by their example. 
 If this be treason, make the most of it. 
 
 1926 Patrick Henry: Speech, Virginia 
 
 House of Burgesses, May, 1765. 
 Trees. 
 
 What are these maples and beeches and birches 
 but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are 
 these pines and firs and spruces but holy hymns, 
 too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their 
 gay, deciduous neighbors ? 
 
 1927 Holmes: Extract from Letter. 
 
 When we plant a tree, we are doing what we 
 can to make our planet a more wholesome and 
 happier dwelling-place for those who come after 
 us if not for ourselves. 
 
 1928 Holmes : Extract from Letter. 
 
 Trees assume, on the approach of winter, an air 
 of anguish, an accent of desolation, which are 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 277 
 
 thrilling. One would say that all these leaves 
 were struggling before they fall and die. 
 
 1929 Joseph Roux : Meditations of a Parish 
 
 Priest. (Hapgood, Translator.) 
 
 Tribute. 
 
 Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. 
 
 1930 Charles Colesworth Ptxckxey : 
 When Ambassdor to the French Republic. 
 
 Trickery. 
 
 A trick is at the best but a mean thing. 
 
 1931 Le Sage: Gil Bias, Bk, v., Ch. 1. 
 
 ( Smollett, Translator.) 
 
 I know a trick worth two of that. 
 
 1932 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Trifles. 
 
 Those who busy themselves about ridiculous 
 trifles become ridiculous when they undertake 
 serious business. 
 
 1933 Cato Major. (Plutarch, Catonis 
 
 Apophthegmata, 18.) (199, a.) 
 
 AVe must not stand upon trifles. 
 
 1934 Cervantes : Don Quixote, Pt. i., Ch. 30. 
 
 (Jarvis, Translator .) 
 
 Troubles. 
 
 There are the three ways in which people take 
 trouble. They forget them; they worry over 
 them ; and they bear them with a peaceful and 
 serene spirit. This last was Christ's peace. lie 
 came into the world in order that he might live in 
 the midst of trouble. He lived in peace, and, 
 dying, he said, " My peace. I give unto you."' 
 
 1935 Lyman Abbott: Problems of L 
 
278 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The troubles which have come upon us always 
 seem more serious than those which are only 
 threatening. 
 
 1936 Livy: Histories, iii., 39. 
 
 Trustfulness. 
 
 We are inclined to believe those whom we do 
 not know, because they have never deceived us. 
 
 1937 Dr. Johnson: The Idler. No. 80= 
 
 Truth. 
 
 We are not to judge of a truth beforehand by 
 the fruit which we think it will produce. It is the 
 truth which makes free, not any kind of error. It 
 is the truth which sanctifies men, not any kind of 
 falsehood. All truth is safe. 
 
 1938 Lyman Abbott: Problems of Life. 
 
 Truth illuminates and gives joy ; and it is by 
 the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits 
 are indissolubly held. Matthew Arnold : 
 
 1939 Essays on Criticism. Joubcrt. 
 
 No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon 
 the vantage-ground of truth. 
 
 1940 Bacon: Essays. Of Truth. 
 
 The genuine essence of truth never dies. 
 
 1941 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Prophet. 
 
 The triumphs of truth are the most glorious, 
 chiefly because they are the most bloodless of all 
 victories, deriving their highest lustre from the 
 number of the saved, not of the slain. 
 
 1942 Colton: Lacon. 
 
 Truth is always present ; it only needs to lift 
 the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. 
 
 1943 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 279 
 
 Truth alone can stand strict and stern investiga- 
 tion, and rejoices to come to the light. 
 
 1944 Moses Harvey: 
 
 Lecture? on Egypt and its Monuments. 1 
 
 Truth is of importance only as it ministers to 
 life, and as it is the only thing that can thus 
 minister. 
 
 1945 Mark Hopkins : Teachings and Counsels. 
 Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of 
 
 life, is always found where it is honestly sought. 
 
 1946 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 11. 
 
 Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forci- 
 ble, nothing so novel. 
 
 1947 Landor : Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 Epictetus and \ 
 
 To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal 
 part of human perfection in this world, and the 
 seed-plot of all other virtues. John Locke: 
 
 1948 Letter to Anthony Collins, E 
 
 Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth 
 is divine ; and whoever breathes its air and walks 
 by its light has found the lost paradise. 
 
 1949 Horace Mann: Lecture before Boston 
 
 Mercantile Lib. Asso., 1849. 
 
 Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any out- 
 ward touch as the sunbeam. Milton : 
 
 1950 The Doctrine and Discip 
 
 Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble 
 fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot re- 
 tain, — which it is the pride of utmost age to 
 recover. 
 
 1951 Ruskin: Modern Painters. P 
 
 (Second edition.) 
 
280 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Tyranny. 
 
 Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. 
 
 1952 Burke : Speech, Bristol, previous to the 
 
 Election, 1780. 
 
 There is no tyranny so despotic as that of pub- 
 lic opinion among a free people. 
 
 1953 Donn Piatt: Memories of the Men 
 
 who Saved the Union. Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Where law ends, tyranny begins. 
 
 1954 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) : 
 
 Speech, Jan. 9, 1770. Case of Wilkes. 
 When the will of man is raised above law, it is 
 always tyranny and despotism, whether it is the 
 will of a bashaw or of bastard patriots. 
 
 1955 Xoah Webster: Essays. The Times. 
 
 (American Men of Letters.) 
 Tyrants. 
 
 Kings will be tyrants from policy, when sub- 
 jects are rebels from principle. 
 
 1956 Burke: Reflections on the Rev. in France. 
 
 Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 
 
 1957 Lnscription on a Cannon near ivhich the 
 ashes of Pres. John Braclshaw were lodged, 
 on top of hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. 
 
 The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no 
 law but his caprice. 
 
 1958 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary . 
 
 Tyranny. 
 
 U. 
 
 Ugliness. 
 
 He was jest the cross est, ugliest critter that 
 ever ye see, and he was ugly jest for the sake o 1 
 ugliness. Harriet Beecher Stowe : 
 
 1959 Oldtown Papers, p. 196. 
 
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 Ultramontane, Ultramontanism. 
 
 If the Ultramontanes force their way to the 
 leadership among the Germans, I shall know 
 beforehand that their aim is not for the union of 
 the Germans, but for their separation and weak- 
 ening. That is the object of the whole Ultramon- 
 tane policy; it is democratic in France, republican 
 in Italy, " social-Christian, " or, if more conven- 
 ient, social democratic in black, in Germany, 
 feudal-Czech in Austria ; it will even become anti- 
 Semitic, so that it may deceitfully introduce itself 
 to the Jews as their saviour. 
 
 1960 Bismarck: Conversations with Prince 
 Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 
 
 To the Ultramontane, holding that the temporal 
 welfare no less than the eternal salvation of men 
 depends on submission to the Church, it is incred- 
 ible that Church authority has but a transitory 
 value. 
 
 1961 Herbert Spexcer : Study of Sociology. 
 
 Unbelief. 
 
 Belief consists in accepting "the affirmations of 
 the soul ; unbelief in denying them . 
 
 1962 Emerson: Essays. Montaigne. 
 
 Uncertain, Uncertainty. 
 
 Man, with all his boasted titles and privileges, 
 wanders about in uncertainty, does and undoes, 
 and contradicts himself, throughout all the vari- 
 ous scenes of thinking and living. 
 
 1963 Bishop Atterbury : Sermons, II, xxiii. 
 
 Uncharitableness. 
 
 How unequal, how uncharitable, must it needs 
 be, to impose that which his conscience cannot 
 
282 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS., 
 
 urge him to impose, upon him whose conscience 
 forbids him to obey ! 
 
 1964 Milton : True Religion. 
 
 Understanding. 
 
 A distinction has been made between acuteness 
 and subtlety of understanding. This might be 
 illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in 
 taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in 
 feeling the air of truth. 
 
 1965 Hazlitt: Characteristics. Xo. 33. 
 
 I have found you an aro'ument ; I am not 
 obliged to find you an understanding, 
 
 1966 Dr. Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 
 
 Vol. yiii., Ch. 9. 1784, 
 
 Ungodliness. 
 
 For the wrath of God is reyealed from heaven 
 against all uno-odliness and imrio'hteousness of 
 men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. 
 
 1967 Rew Testament: Romans i., 18. 
 
 Union. The. 
 
 This glorious Union shall not perish ! Precious 
 legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and 
 cherished to our children. Generations unborn 
 shall enjoy its privileges as we have done ; and if 
 we leave them poor in all besides, we will trans- 
 mit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings ! 
 
 1968 Edward Everett : Orations and 
 Speeches. Union Meeting in Faneuil Hall. 
 
 The Union of the States is indissoluble; the 
 country is undivided and indivisible forever. 
 
 1969 David Dudley Field : Speeches, 
 Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 283 
 
 Our Federal Union : it must be preserved. 
 
 1970 Andrew Jackson: Benton's Thirty 
 
 Years' 1 View. I. 148. 
 
 Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and 
 inseparable. Daniel Webster : 
 
 1971 Speech, United States Senate, 1830. 
 
 When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the 
 last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him 
 shining on the broken and dishonored fragments 
 of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, 
 discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil 
 feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. 
 
 1972 Daniel Webster : Speech, United 
 
 States Senate, Jan. 26-27, 1830. 
 
 United States. 
 
 In estimating future events we must keep an eye 
 on the United States of America, for they may 
 develop into a danger to Europe in economic 
 affairs, possibly also in others, at present wholly 
 unexpected by most of us. In the future the one 
 cannot be separated from the other. The war of 
 the future is the economic war, the struggle for 
 existence on a grand scale. May my successors 
 always bear this in mind, and take care when this 
 struggle comes that we are prepared for it ! 
 
 1973 Bismarck : Conversations with Prince 
 Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 
 
 I do believe we shall continue to grow, to mul- 
 tiply, and prosper until we exhibit an association 
 powerful, wise, and happy beyond what has yet 
 been seen by men. Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 1974 Letter to John Adams, 1812. 
 
284 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Universe, The. 
 
 The universe is a thought of God. 
 
 1975 Schiller: Essays, JEsthetical and 
 
 Philosophical. Letter iv. Julius to Raphael. 
 
 If from the origin of the Universe we turn to its 
 nature, the like insurmountable difficulties rise up 
 before us on all sides — or rather, the same 
 difficulties under new aspects. We find ourselves 
 on the one hand obliged to make certain assump- 
 tions ; and yet on the other hand we find these 
 assumptions cannot be represented in thought. 
 
 1976 Herbert Spencer: Synthetic 
 Philosophy . First Principles, Ch. 2, Sec. 12. 
 
 Unkindness. 
 
 Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner ; 
 come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all 
 unkindness. 
 
 1977 Shaks. : Her. W. of TV., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Unrequited Attachment. 
 
 Next to a requited attachment, one of the most 
 convenient things that a young man can carry 
 about with him at the beginning of his career, is 
 an unrequited attachment. It makes him feel im- 
 portant and business-like, and blase*, and cynical : 
 and whenever he has a touch of liver, or suffers 
 from want of exercise, he can mourn over his lost 
 love, and be very happy in a tender, twilight 
 fashion. Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales 
 
 1978 from the Hills. 
 
 Uprightness. 
 
 God hath made man upright ; but they have 
 sought out many inventions. 
 
 1979 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 29. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 285 
 
 Usefulness. 
 
 What a strange thing to defend the usefulness 
 of the useful ! Can there be people so foolish as 
 to deny the usefulness of that which is useful ? 
 And furthermore, can there be people so foolish 
 as to considei it their duty to defend the usefulness 
 of the useful ? Tolstoi : 
 
 1980 Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. 
 
 Usury. 
 
 Usury bringeth the treasure of the realm or 
 state into a few hands : for the usurer being at 
 certainties, and the others at uncertainties, at the 
 end of the game most of the money will be in the 
 box. 
 
 1981 Bacon : Ornamenta Rationalia. 
 
 V. 
 Valor. 
 
 Discretion, the best part of valor. 
 
 1982 Beaumont and Fletcher : 
 A King and No King, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 It is a brave act of valor to contemn death ; but 
 where life is more terrible than death, it is then 
 the truest valor to dare to live. 
 
 1983 Sir Thomas Browne : 
 Christian Morals, Pt. L, Sec. 44. 
 
 True valor lies in the middle, between cow- 
 ardice and rashness. Cervantes : Don Quixote, 
 
 1984 Pt. ii., Ch. 4. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 
 The better part of valor is discretion; in the 
 which better part I have saved my life. 
 
 1985 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
286 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 My valor is certainly going ! it is sneaking off ! 
 I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my 
 hands . 
 
 1986 Sheridan: The Rivals, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Vanity. 
 
 The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee 
 from vanity. Cervantes : Don Quixote, 
 
 1987 Pt. ii., Ch. 43. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 
 Be extremely on your guard against vanity, the 
 common failing of inexperienced youth ; but par- 
 ticularly against that kind of vanity that dubs a 
 man a coxcomb ; a character which, once acquired, 
 is more indelible than that of priesthood. 
 
 1988 Lord Chesterfield : Advice to 
 
 His Son. Vanity. 
 
 No man sympathizes with the sorrows of 
 vanity. Dr. Johnson : Works. 
 
 1989 VIII. 276. (Oxford edition, 1825.) 
 
 False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces 
 men to affect esteem by things which they indeed 
 possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a 
 man to value himself on would be a scandalous 
 error. La Bruyere : Characters. Of Man. 
 
 1990 (Rowe, Translator.) 
 
 Variety. 
 
 But the eye, my dear madam, is agreeably re- 
 freshed with the variety. Man is not a creature of 
 pure reason — he must have his senses delight- 
 fully appealed to. Charles Lamb : 
 
 1991 Essays of Elia. Mrs. Battle on Whist. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 287 
 
 Veneration. 
 
 The veneration we have for many things, en- 
 tirely proceeds from their being carefully con- 
 cealed. Goldsmith : 
 
 1992 Citizen of the World. Letter 53. 
 
 Vengeance. 
 
 Good Christians should never avenge injuries. 
 
 1993 Cervantes: Don Quixote, Ft. ii., 
 
 Ch, 11. (Jarvis, Translator.) 
 
 Venus. 
 
 Venus will not charm so much without her 
 attendant Graces, as they will without her. 
 
 1994 Lord Chesterfield : 
 Letter to His Son, Nov. 18, 17-18. 
 
 Vice. 
 
 If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would 
 be the sinner. Bacon : Moral and 
 
 1995 Historical Works . OmamenlaRationalia. 
 
 Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its 
 grossness. Burke: 
 
 1996 Reflections on the Revolution in France. 
 
 There are some faults so nearly allied to excel- 
 lence that we can scarce weed out the vice without 
 eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith: 
 
 1997 The Good-Natured Man, Act i. 
 
 Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not de- 
 lude yourself with the belief that it can be argued 
 against in the presence of the exciting cause. 
 Nothing but actual flight can save you. 
 
 1998 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. 
 
288 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The same vices which are huge and insupport- 
 able in others we do not feel in ourselves. 
 
 1999 LaBruyere: Characters. 
 Of Judgments, (Bowe, Translator.) 
 
 Vicissitudes. 
 
 A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. 
 
 2000 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 12. 
 
 Victory. 
 
 He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him 
 not set himself too great nor too small tasks ; for 
 the first will make him dejected by often failing, 
 and the second will make him a small proceeder, 
 though by often prevailings. 
 
 2001 Bacon: Essays. Of Nature in Men. 
 
 I came, saw, and overcame. 
 
 2002 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 A victory is twice itself when the achiever 
 brings home full numbers. 
 
 2003 Shaks.: Much Ado, Acti., Sc. 1. 
 
 Villany. 
 
 The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it 
 shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 
 
 2004 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Virtue. 
 
 It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the 
 affections of the mind, but to regulate them. 
 
 2005 Addison: The Spectator. No. 494. 
 
 Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 
 
 2006 Bacon: Essays. Of Beauty. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 289 
 
 Virtue is both the parent and the guardian of 
 friendship ; without virtue friendship cannot pos- 
 sibly exist. Cicero : 
 
 2007 Be Amicitia, vi., 20. 
 
 Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she 
 leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would 
 not have been better to serve vice. 
 
 2008 George William Curtis : 
 Harpers Magazine, 1886. Editor's Easy Chair. 
 
 Hast thou virtue ? acquire also the graces and 
 beauties of virtue. 
 
 2009 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Al. 
 
 The ages of greatest public spirit are not always 
 eminent for private virtue. 
 
 2010 Hume : Essays. III. That Politics 
 
 May be Reduced to a Science. 
 
 We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, 
 but much oftener of that which we lack. 
 
 2011 Lessing: Minna von Bar nhelm. II. 1. 
 
 (E. R. T., Translator.) 
 
 Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are 
 he; graces will appear, and there's an end. 
 
 2012 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Vision. 
 
 The higher and wider is the sweep of vision, 
 the more difficult is it to stumble at trifles and 
 make mountains out of mole hills. 
 
 2013 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : 
 
 Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church. 
 
290 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Vocation. 
 
 One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly 
 at heart and with enthusiasm. 
 
 2014 A. Bronson Alcott: Table-Talk. 
 
 III. Far suits. Leisure. 
 
 ,r Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to 
 labor in his vocation. 
 
 2015 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Voice, The. 
 
 There is no index of character so sure as the 
 voice. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : 
 
 2016 Tancred, Bk. ii., Ch. 1. 
 
 Songs may be mute ; for songs may exist un- 
 sung, but voices exist only while they sound. 
 
 2017 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. 
 
 The Abbe Belille and Walter Landor. 
 
 The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the 
 hands of Esau. 
 
 2018 Old Testament: Genesis xxvii. 22. 
 
 Vows. 
 
 All unnecessary vows are folly, because they 
 suppose a prescience of the future, which has not 
 been given us. Dr. Johnson : Letters to 
 
 2019 and from the Late Samuel Johnson. 
 
 Vulgarity. 
 
 Simple and innocent vulgarity is merely an un- 
 trained and undeveloped bluntness of body and 
 mind : but in true, inbred vulgarity, there is a 
 dreadful callousness which in extremity becomes 
 capable of every sort of bestial habit and crime, 
 
DICTIMX^BY of prc«se quotati ks 
 
 without fear, without pleasure, without horror, and 
 without pity. BcSKiy : Sesame and LMts. 
 
 202C Of King* Treasuries. 
 
 W. 
 Wants. 
 
 He who has the i-~ est wants is nearest to the 
 gods. Socrates : 
 
 2021 {Diogenes LaerUus. ii. 5. 11. _ " 
 
 War. 
 
 r never leaves, where it found a nation. 
 
 : : l Bceke : Letters on a Begicide Peace. 
 
 War will never yield but to the principle 
 universal justice and love, and these have no sure 
 root but in the religion of Jesus Chris! 
 
 ■_ . WtT.T.T\M Ei.LI7 i 'HAXSTS 
 
 Discourse* 1835. liar. 
 
 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian 
 knot in twain which all the wit of East and W 
 of Xorthern and Border statesmen, could not 
 untie. Z :: i }> y 
 
 _ 2± Lectures and Biographical Sketches. 
 
 r :: . - 1--.-. ■*. 
 
 War educates the — s, calls into action the 
 will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men 
 into such swift- and close collision in critical 
 moments that man measures man. 
 
 : _ Emkbsoh : Lecture* Boston* mux 
 
 Marer 1838. War. 
 
 The great acts of war require to be undertaken 
 by noblemen. Victor HrG 
 
 , : Ninety-Three. Pt. i.. Bk. ii.. Ch. 3. 
 
 (Benedict, Transtat 
 
292 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 They shall have wars and pay for their pre- 
 sumption. 
 
 2027 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 Nothing except a battle lost can be half so 
 
 melancholy as a battle won. 
 
 2028 Duke of Wellington: 
 
 Despatch. 1815. 
 
 The whole art of war consists in getting at 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: 
 
 2029 To J. W. Croktr in Conversation, 
 
 Weakness. 
 
 There are two kinds of weakness, that which 
 breaks and that which bends. 
 
 2030 Lowell : Among My Books. 
 
 Shakespeare Once More 
 Wealth. 
 
 If you would be wealthy, think of saving as 
 well as of getting. 
 
 2031 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's AL 
 
 Wealth is an imperious mistress ; she requires 
 the whole heart and life of man. 
 
 2032 Laboulaye: Abdallah, Ch. 9. 
 
 (Mary L. Booth, Translator.) 
 
 Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means 
 power, it means leisure, it means liberty. 
 
 2033 Lowell : Democracy and Other 
 Addresses. Address, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least 
 gift that God has bestowed on mankind. 
 
 2034 Martin Luther: Table Talk. Of the 
 
 Nature of the World. No. 167. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 293 
 
 A man can no more make a safe use of wealth 
 without reason, than he can of a horse without a 
 bridle. SOCRATES: 
 
 2035 (F. A. Paley, Translator, in Greek Wit.) 
 
 Weather, The. 
 
 We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, 
 and vet there is nothing- more important, 
 
 203 6 Auebbac h : On ih t He igh ts . 
 
 (Bennett, Translator.) 
 
 Weeds. 
 
 Weeds . . . have hateful moral qualities. To 
 cut down a weed is. therefore, to do a moral action. 
 I feel as if I were destroying sin. 
 
 2037 Charles Puplfa- Warneb : 
 My Summer in a Garden. Third Week, 
 
 Welcome. 
 
 I reckon this always, — that a man is never 
 undone till he be hanged : nor never welcome to a 
 place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess 
 say. Welcome. 
 
 2038 Siiaks. : Two Gent, of V.. Act ii.. Sc. 5. 
 
 Whist. 
 
 A clear lire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the 
 game. Charles Lamb: 
 
 2039 Mrs. Battle's opinions on Whist. 
 
 r> 
 
 Wickedness. 
 
 Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace 
 of wickedness to old age. which was accompanied 
 with many other evils. 
 
 20-40 Plutarch: Roman Apophthegms. 
 
 >kr. 
 
294 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 'Cause I's wicked — I is. Ts mighty wicked 
 anyhow. I cant help it. 
 
 2041 Harriet Beecher Stowe : 
 
 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 20. 
 
 Widows. 
 
 •• Widders, Samniy." replied Mr. Weller, 
 
 slightly changing color, " widders are 'ceptions to 
 ev'ry rule. I have heerd how many ord'nary 
 women one widder's equal to. in pint o' eonrin' 
 over you. I think it's five-and-twenty. but I don't 
 rightly know vether it ain't more." 
 
 2042 Dickens: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 24. 
 
 Wife. 
 
 It is a characteristic of good wires that they feel 
 and resent an injury to their husbands much more 
 than they themselves do. Women's feelings are 
 only aroused when we have regained the £audin£"- 
 rope which seemed to slip out of our hands. 
 
 2043 Bismakck: Conversations with Prince 
 Bismarck, collected by Heinrich von Poschinger. 
 
 Thy wife is a constellation of virtues : she's the 
 moon, and thou art the man in the moon. 
 
 2044: Coxg-reye : L o ve jo t L o vt . Act i . , Sc . 5 . 
 
 Will. 
 
 There is nothing more precious to a man than 
 his will: there is nothing which he relinquishes 
 with so much reluctance. J. G. Holland : 
 
 2045 Plain Talks on Familar Subjects. 
 
 VIP Cost and Compensation. 
 
 That to live by one man's will became the cause 
 of all men's misery. 
 
 2046 Bichaei) Hooker : Ecclesiastical Polity. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 295 
 
 Wind. 
 
 We must not think too unkindly oven of the east 
 wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even 
 in its benignest moods ; but there are seasons when 
 I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though 
 it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and 
 take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters 
 of the south and west. 
 
 2047 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. 
 
 June 11, 1840. 
 
 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 
 
 2048 Laurence Sterne : 
 Sentimental Journey. Maria. 
 
 Wine. 
 
 Wine, like to fire, succoreth mankind. 
 
 2049 Panyasis: Fragment 4, 12. 
 
 (Diibner's Edition.) 
 
 Come, come, good wine is a good familiar 
 creature, if it be well used ; exclaim no more 
 against it. 
 
 2050 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Good wine needs no bush. 
 
 2051 Shaks. : As You Like It. Epilogue. 
 
 O thou invisible spirit of wine ! If thou hast no 
 name to be known by, let us call thee devil. 
 
 2052 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Winter. 
 
 A long hard winter lived through from begin- 
 ning to end without shirking is one of the most 
 salutary experiences in the world. There is no 
 nonsense about it ; you could not indulge in 
 
296 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 vapors and the finer sentiments in the midst of 
 its deadly earnest if yon tried. 
 
 2053 Mary A. B. Arnim (Grafw von) : 
 
 The Solitary Summer. June. 
 
 Take Winter as yon find him, and he turns out 
 to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense 
 in him, and tolerating none in you, which is a 
 great comfort in the long run. 
 
 2054 Lowell: My Study Windows. 
 
 A Good Word for Winter. 
 
 Wisdom. 
 
 Great is wisdom ; infinite is the value of wisdom. 
 It cannot he exaggerated : it is the highest achic 
 ment of man. Carlyxe : 
 
 2055 Miscellanies. Inaugural Addrt 
 
 inburgh, April 2, 1866. 
 
 He that never thinks, never can he wise. 
 
 2056 Dr. Johnson: Basselas, Ch. 17. 
 
 The only jewel which you can carry beyond the 
 grave is wisdom. 
 
 2057 James Alfred Langford: 
 The Praise of Books. Preliminary Ei 
 
 Wisdom is justified of her children. 
 
 2058 New TESTAMENT: Matthew xi. 19: 
 
 Luke vii. 85. 
 
 Wisdom is better than rabies. 
 
 2059 Old Testament: Proverbs viiL 11. 
 
 Well, God give them wisdom that have it: and 
 those that are fools let them use their talents. 
 
 2060 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act L, 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 2 ( .)7 
 
 • 
 
 Wit. 
 
 Wit without employment is a disease. 
 
 2061 Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, 
 
 Pt L, Sec ii., Mem. 2, Subs. 6. 
 
 Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it 
 should get blunted. Cervantes: 
 
 2062 The Exemplary Novels. The Little 
 
 Gypsy Girl. {Kelly, Translator.) 
 
 Those who object to wit are envious of it. 
 20G;> Hazlitt: Characteristics. JSo. 374. 
 
 The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, 
 the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest 
 only raises expectation of another. 
 
 2064 Dr. JOHNSON: The Rambler. No. 141. 
 
 Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is 
 a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. 
 
 2065 Theodore Parker: Speeches, 
 Addresses, and Occasional Sermons. Dis- 
 course, Boston, March 5, 1848. The Death 
 of John Quincy Adams. 
 
 I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that 
 wit is in other men. 
 
 2066 Siiaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Sir, your wit ambles well : it goes easily. 
 
 2067 Siiaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Welcome, pure wit! 
 
 2068 Siiaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit 
 that no wit will bear repetition'; at least, the 
 
298 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 original electrical feeling produced by any piece 
 of wit can never be renewed. 
 
 2069 Sydney Smith : Lecture. 
 The Conduct of the Understanding. 
 
 Wit is more necessary than beauty ; and I 
 think no young woman ugly that has it, and no 
 handsome woman agreeable without it. 
 
 2070 Wycherley : 
 
 The Country Wife, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 Women. 
 
 Where women are, the better things are implied 
 if not spoken. 
 
 2071 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. 
 
 VI. Discourse. Conversation. 
 
 Women wish to be loved without a why or a 
 wherefore ; not because they are pretty, or good, 
 or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but 
 because they are themselves. 
 
 2072 Amiel: Journal, March 17, 1868. 
 (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) 
 
 It is always best to allow a woman to do as she 
 likes if you can, and it saves a good deal of 
 bother. To have what she desired is generally 
 an effective punishment. 
 
 2073 Mary A. B. Arnim (Grafin von) : 
 
 The Solitary Summer. May. 
 
 If there be any one whose power is in beauty, 
 in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. 
 
 2074: Henry Ward Beecher: 
 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, 
 have no history. George Eliot : 
 
 2075 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. vi., Ch. 3 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 299 
 
 'Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a 
 woman to want a confidant. 
 
 2076 Farqltiar : The Recruiting Officer, 
 
 Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Women forgive injuries, but never forget 
 slights. 
 
 2077 Thomas C. Haliburton (Sam Slick) : 
 
 The Old Judge, Ch. 15. 
 
 Woman must be either a subject or an equal ; 
 there is no middle ground. Every conclusion to 
 a supposed principle only involves the necessity 
 of the next concession for which that principle 
 calls. 
 
 2078 Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 
 
 Women and the Alphabet. 
 
 Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. 
 
 2079 Holmes : 
 
 The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table, Ch. 12. 
 
 One of the advantages of the negative part as- 
 signed to women in life is that they are seldom 
 forced to commit themselves. They can, if they 
 choose, remain perfectly passive while a great 
 many things take place in regard to them ; they 
 need not account for what they do not do. From 
 time to time a man must show his hand, but save 
 for one supreme exigency a woman need never 
 show hers. She moves in mystery as long as she 
 likes ; and mere reticence in her, if she is young 
 and fair, interprets itself as good sense and good 
 taste. W. D. Ho wells : 
 
 2080 Ihe Lady of the Aroostook, Ch. 6. 
 
300 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Great women belong to history and to self- 
 sacrifice. 
 
 2081 Leigh Hunt: Table-Talk. 
 
 Mrs. Siddons. 
 
 When a man does good work. out of all propor- 
 tion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is 
 a woman at the back of the virtue. 
 
 2082 Rudyard Kipling: 
 
 Plain Tales from the Hills. His Chance in Life. 
 
 Nature intended that woman should be her 
 masterpiece. Lessing : 
 
 2083 Emilie Galotli, V. 7. {Lewes, Translator.) 
 
 The proper study of mankind is woman. 
 
 2084 Coventry Patmore : {Memoirs and 
 Correspondence of Coventry Patmore, by 
 
 Basil Champneys, Ch. 5.) 
 
 We cannot determine^ what the queenly power 
 of women should be until we are agreed what 
 their ordinary power should be. We cannot con- 
 sider how education may fit them for any widely 
 extending duty until we are agreed what is their 
 true constant duty. 
 
 2085 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 
 
 Of Queens" Gardens. 
 
 A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, 
 for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. 
 
 2086 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Do you not know I am a woman ? when I think 
 I must speak. 
 
 2087 Shaks. ■ As You Like Lt, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 301 
 
 If God made woman beautiful, he made her so 
 to be looked at — to give pleasure to the ey es 
 which rest upon her — and she has no business to 
 dress herself as if she were a hitching-post, or to 
 transform that which should give delight to those 
 among whom she moves, into a ludicrous carica- 
 ture of a woman's form. 
 
 2088 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland) : 
 
 Lessons in Life. Mistakes in Penance. 
 
 Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her 
 affections. 
 
 2089 Lew Wallace: Ben Eur, Bk. vi., Ch. 2. 
 
 Woman always did, from the first, make a muss 
 in a garden. 
 
 2090 Charles Dudley Warner: 
 
 My Summer in a Garden. First Week. 
 
 Woman is a creature without reason, who 
 pokes the fire from the top. 
 
 2091 Archbishop Whately. 
 
 Words. 
 
 Words are the transcript of those ideas which 
 are in the mind of man, and that writing or 
 printing is the transcript of words. 
 
 2092 Addison: The Spectator. No. 166. 
 
 All words are pegs to hang ideas on. 
 
 2093 Henry Ward Beech er : 
 Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 
 
 Richtcr says of Luther's words, " His words are 
 half battles. 11 
 
 2094 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. 
 
 The Hero as Prii >/. 
 
302 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, 
 and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. 
 We ought to be careful indeed what we say. 
 
 2095 Confucius: Analects, Bk. xix., 
 Ch. 25, Sec. 2. (Legge, Translator.) 
 
 There is no calamity which right words will 
 not begin to redress. 
 
 2096 Emerson: Society and Solitude. 
 
 Eloquence. 
 
 Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the 
 most powerful words. They are more convincing, 
 more compelling, more prevailing. 
 
 2097 Washington Gladden : Things Old 
 
 and New. VIII. The Tamed Tongue. 
 
 Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dis- 
 sonance. When man arrives at his highest per- 
 fection, he will again be dumb ! For I suppose he 
 was dumb at the Creation, and must go around an 
 entire circle in order to return to that blessed 
 state. Hawthorne : 
 
 2098 American Note-Books. April, 1841. 
 
 Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. 
 
 2099 Helen Jackson (H. H.) : 
 
 Ramona, Ch. 17. 
 
 Before employing a fine word, find a place for 
 it. Joubert : 
 
 2100 Pensees. No. 302. (Attwell, Translator.) 
 
 A word once vulgarized can never be rehabili- 
 tated . 
 
 2101 Lowell: Among My Books. 
 
 Shakespeare Once More. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 303 
 
 His words, like so many nimble and airy servi- 
 tors, trip about him at command. 
 
 2102 Milton: Apology for Smectymnuus. 
 
 A few words, well chosen and distinguished, 
 will do work that a thousand cannot, when every 
 one is acting, equivocally, in the function of 
 another. Yes ; and words, if they are not watched, 
 will do deadly work sometimes. 
 
 2103 Ruskix : Sesame and Lilies. . 
 
 Of Kings' 1 Treasuries. 
 
 A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly 
 shot off. 
 
 2101 Shaks. : Two Gent, of F., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Men of few words are the best men. 
 
 2105 Shaks. : Henry F., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Pol. What do you read, my lord ? 
 Ham. Words, words, words! 
 
 2106 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Some syllables are swords. 
 
 2107 Henry Vaughan: Rides and Lessons. 
 
 Great writers and orators are commonly econo- 
 mists in the use of words. 
 
 2108 E. P. Whipple: American Literature. 
 Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Of no other poet except Shakespeare have so 
 many phrases become household words as of 
 Wordsworth. If Pope has made current more 
 epigrams of worldly wisdom, to Wordsworth be- 
 longs the nobler praise of having defined for us, 
 and given for us a daily possession, those faint and 
 
304 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 vague suggestions of other-worlclliness of whose 
 gentle ministry with our baser nature the hurry 
 and bustle of life scarcely ever allowed us to be 
 conscious. Lowell : 
 
 2109 Among My Books. Wordsworth. 
 
 Work. 
 
 If I have done good work, that will keep my 
 memory green ; but if not, not all the statues in 
 the world will serve. 
 
 2110 Agesilaus (Plutarch, Apophlhegmata 
 
 Laconica, Agesilaus , 79. 215, a.) 
 
 Genuine work alone, what thou workest faith- 
 fully, that is eternal as the Almighty Founder and 
 World-Builder himself. 
 
 2111 Carlyle: Past and Present, Bk. ii., Ch. 17. 
 
 Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and 
 miseries that ever beset mankind, — honest work, 
 which you intend getting done. 
 
 2112 Carlyle: Miscellanies. 
 Inaugural Address. Edinburgh, April 2, 1866. 
 
 Better to wear out than to rust out. 
 
 2113 Bishop Cumberland : Sermon, Duty 
 of Contending for the Truth, by Bishop Home. 
 
 Unless a man works he cannot find out what he 
 is able to do. Hamerton : 
 
 2114 Modern Frenchmen. Francois Rude. 
 
 The moment a man can really do his work he 
 becomes speechless about it. All words become 
 idle to him, all theories. 
 
 2115 Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies. 
 
 Of the Mystery of Life. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 305 
 
 It is far better to give work which is above the 
 men than to educate the men to be above their 
 work. Ruskin: 
 
 2116 The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ch. 7. 
 
 Work is the inevitable condition of human life, 
 the true source of human welfare. 
 
 2117 Tolstoi: My Religion, Ch. 10. 
 
 VTorld, The. 
 
 The world is the same everywhere. 
 
 2118 Auerbach : On the Heights. 
 
 (Bennett, Translator.) 
 
 The world is a thing that a man must learn to 
 despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn 
 to reverence it, and work in it and for it. 
 
 2119 Carlyle : Thomas Carlylc, 
 First Forty Years, by Froucle. 
 
 The world is not made for the prosperous alone, 
 nor for the strong. George William Curtis : 
 
 2120 The Potiphar Papers. VII. 
 
 The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings 
 of tension waiting to be struck. 
 
 2121 Emerson: Resources. 
 
 Worry. 
 
 It is not work that kills men ; it is worry. 
 Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon 
 a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the 
 blade. 
 
 2123 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. 
 
 Worship. 
 
 Man alwa} T s worships something ; always he 
 sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something 
 
30i^ btj si \>. 
 
 : - .. . . *o see it in any 
 
 finke things or -; .ipfc Mm well to fix Ids pes 
 
 :./. v ■■-. K-« i - 
 
 . .: : y ■ , - \ '::.■ ■. . No. :;. isss ) 
 
 . ■ , ■ , . l some joiu- 
 
 niandwig relation to the heklth of n his 
 
 iv.^/.os: powers, so -is - ue manti 
 
 :.:■: Worst 
 
 . - - ; it, and 
 
 happier sonietinies cheated than not to trust. 
 
 213 Dr. Johxs s : The Bow No. 
 
 x. 
 
 he could lire with - :uan [Xanthippe], he 
 
 • > - - rcis - in y 
 
 patience, and enables me to bear with all the m- 
 
 ;::>: ~ '- :vs *' 
 
 213 : J.Thomas " -imiiary 
 
 Y 
 Yoiiti. 
 
 V :v; : .s i : '" "^ :: 7 ;■; y ■.-.•. youth which 
 
 ••■ is s :;> ". • - - g is 
 
 i - ■ ■ 
 
 Hallux: r«We 2foflL Second Sw 
 
 s a. 
 
DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. •"•". 
 
 Youth comes but once in a lifetime. 
 
 2129 Longfellow: II , Bk. ii., Ch. 10. 
 
 If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow 
 only on. Lowell: 
 
 21! Dei Other Ad 
 
 We have some salt of our youth in as. 
 
 2131 Shaks. : Mer. W. oj H'.. Act ii.. - 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zeal. 
 
 If our zeal were true and genuine we should be 
 much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. 
 
 21: Addison: Thi Spectator. No. 185. 
 
 I would have every zealous man examine his 
 heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find 
 that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either 
 pride, interest, or ill-repute. 
 
 21; Addison: Thi y N< 
 
 There Is nol _ in which men more 
 thems - than in what they call zeal. 
 
 Addison : Thi \ No. tSl 
 
 The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundlc — . 
 2i Dr. Johnson: Works. IX. 4 
 
 (Oxford ed. 1825 
 
 An ardent desire of hallowing" the name of God. 
 
 _ iher with an indignation against whatever 
 
 - to the violation or contempt of religion, is 
 
 called zeal. Milt- \ : 
 
 2136 27 eal. 
 
 This, in religion, is a pure enlig 1 attach- 
 
 ment to the mainfc and progress f the n 
 
308 DICTIONARY OF PliOSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 ship which is due to the Divinity ; but when this 
 zeal is persecuting, blind, and false, it becomes the 
 greatest scourge of humanity, Voltaire : 
 
 2137 A Philosophical Dictionary. Zeal. 
 
 Zeal is no further commendable than as it is 
 attended with knowledge. 
 
 2138 Thomas Wilson : Maxims 
 
 Piety and of Chrii 
 
INDEX OF AUTHORS 
 
 The references which follow the chronological data are the 
 
 numbers of the quotations in consecutive order from the 
 
 respective authors under which they are placed. 
 
 Abbott, Lyman, b. KoxburY, 
 
 Mass., 1835; — 1118, 
 
 1194, 1226, 1309, 1367, 1385, 
 1559, 1597, 1603, 1673, 1692, 
 1741, 1910, 1935, 1938. 
 
 Adams, John. b. Braintree, 
 Mass., 1735; d. Quincy, 
 Mass., 1826.— 368, 719, 836, 893, 
 1452. 
 
 Adams, John Qiiincy. b. 
 Braintree, Mass., 1767; d. 
 Washington, D. C, 1848.— 
 1143. 
 
 Addison, Joseph, b. Mils- 
 ton, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; 
 d. London, Eng., 1719. —119, 
 147, 152, 435, 502, 509, 6i6, 881, 
 951, 980, 1196, 1560, 1699, 1885, 
 2005, 2092, 2132, 2133, 2134. 
 
 Agesilans II. nourished 398 
 B. c— 1410, 1540, 2110. 
 
 Alcott, Amos Bron son. b. 
 Wolcott, Conn., 1799 ; d. Bos- 
 ton, Mass., 1888. —201, 212, 
 334, 629, 848, 855, 928, 1227, 
 1378, 1403, 1518, 152S, 1705. 
 1803, 1921, 2014, 2071. 
 
 Alphonso the Wise (Al- 
 phonso X.). b. 1226 ; d. 1284. 
 
 — 17. 
 
 Amiel, Henri Frederic, b. 
 Geneva, Switzerland, 1821 ; 
 d. Geneva, Switzerland, 1881. 
 
 — 128, 234, 372, 666, 1579, 1640, 
 1799, 2072. 
 
 30 
 
 Antisthenes. nourished 
 
 about 380 b. c. — 572. 
 
 Apollonius. — 1S51. 
 
 Appleton, Thomas Gold. 
 b. Boston, Mass., 1812; d. 
 1884. — 1346. 
 
 Aretino, Pietro. b. Arezzo, 
 Italy, 1492 ; d. Venice, Italy, 
 1557. — 1859. 
 
 Aristotle, b. Stagira, Mace- 
 donia, 384 B. c. ; d. Chalcis 
 in Eubcea, Greece, 322 B.C. 
 — 459, 619, 754, 1414, 1508. 
 
 Ariiim, Mary A. B., Graft* n 
 
 von —1882, 2053, 
 
 2073. 
 
 Arnold, 'Matthew, b. Lale- 
 ham, near Stainer, Eng., 
 1822; d. Liverpool, Eng., 
 1888. — 293, 667, 735, 794, 1423. 
 1939. 
 
 Atterbury, Bishop Francis. 
 b. Milton, near Newport- 
 Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, 
 Eng., 1662: d. Taris, France, 
 1732. — 1963. 
 
 Auerbach, Bert hold. b. 
 Nordstetten, Black Forest, 
 Germany, 1812 ; d. Cannes, 
 France, 1882. — 727. 1092, 1219, 
 1668, 2036, 2118. 
 
 Bacon, Francis, b. London, 
 Eng., 1561 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1626.— 23, 214, 232, 25;*, 317, 
 371, 373, 379, 384, 389, 507, 554, 
 
 9 
 
310 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 579. (301, 606. 620, 655. 656. 744, 
 778, 822, 831, 843. 890. 920.942. 
 975. 976. 994. 1037. 1056. 1076. 
 1201. 1234. 1280. 1285. 1286. 
 1338. 1854. 1460. 1461. 1473.1500. 
 1526. 1591. 1592. 1593. 1605.1624. 
 1664. 1706. 1755. 1797. 1811.1819. 
 1820. 1824. 1835. 1922. 1940.1981. 
 1995. 2001. 2006. 
 
 Baillie, Joanna, b. Lanark- 
 shire. Scot., 1762 ; d. Hamp- 
 stead. Eng.. 1851. — 1477. 
 
 Balfour, Arthur James, b. 
 
 England, 1848 ; — 
 
 498. 
 
 Ballon, Hosea. b. Rich- 
 mond, X.H.. 1771 ; d. Boston. 
 Mass., 1852.— 522. 772. 
 
 Barere de Vieuzac, Ber- 
 tram!, b. Tarbes, France. 
 1755: d. France, 1841. — 1048. 
 
 Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. 
 b. Freeport. Me.. 1813 ; d. 
 1901. — 611. 759. 825, 1710. 1776. 
 
 Baxter, Richard, b. Bow- 
 ton, Eng., 1615: d. London, 
 Fug.. 1691.— 1541. 
 
 Bayard, James Aslieton. 
 b. Philadelphia, Penn., 1767 : 
 d. Wilmington, Del.. 1815. — 
 327. 
 
 Beale, Lionel Smith. b. 
 
 London. Eng., 1828 ; 
 
 83. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Beaumont, Francis. b. 
 Leicestershire. Eng., 1586: 
 d. 1615. 
 Fletcher, John. b. Eye. Fug.. 
 1576 : d. London. Eng-, 
 1625. — 1913. 1982, 
 
 Beeelier, Henry Ward. b. 
 Litchfield, Conn., 1818 : d. 
 Brooklyn. X.Y.. 1887. —6. 41, 
 64. 75. 88, 139,219, 249. 259. 300, 
 
 580. 652. 698. 713. 785. 870. 965, 
 1096. 1221. 1274. 1344, 1462.1506. 
 1538. 1606. 1625. 1665, 1667.16,9, 
 1689. 1734. 1812, 1872. 2074.2093. 
 2122. 
 
 Bellows, Henry Whitnev. 
 b. Boston. Mass.. 1814: d. 
 New York City, 1882. — 1147. 
 
 Besant, Walter, be Ports 
 month, Eng., 1838 ; d. Hamp- 
 stead. Eng-r, 1901. — 153. 
 
 Biekerstaff, Isaac, b. in 
 Ireland about 1735 ; d. 1812. 
 
 — 125. 
 
 Binney, Horace, b. Phila- 
 delphia. Pennsylvania, 1780 ; 
 d. Philadelphia, Penn., 1875. 
 
 — 894. 
 Bismarck-Schonhausen, 
 
 von, Karl Otto. b. Bran- 
 denburg. Prussia. 1815 : d. 
 Friedrichsruh, G e r in a n v, 
 1898. — 365. 1810, 1875, 1960, 
 1973. 2043. 
 
 Blackmore, Sir Kichard. 
 b. Wiltshire, Eng., about 
 1650 ; d. 1729.— 525,^888. 
 
 Blair. Hugh. b. Edinburgh, 
 Scot.. 1718 : d. 1800.— 618. 
 
 Blind, Mathilde, b. Mann- 
 heim, 1841: d., 1896. — 418. 
 
 Boileau, Nicolas ^Boileau- 
 Despreaux). b. Paris, 1636; 
 d. Paris. 1711.— 24. 
 
 Bronte, Charlotte, b. 
 Thornton. Yorkshire, Eng., 
 1816 : d. Ha^vorth, Eng., 18o5. 
 
 — 538. 684. 869. 1841. 
 Brooks, Phillips, b. Boston, 
 
 Mass.. 1835 : d. 1893. — 220. 
 282. 621. 764, 966. 974, 1291.1616, 
 1666. 1682. 1690. 
 
 Brougham, Lord Henry. 
 b. Edinburgh. Scot.. 17,9 : d. 
 Cannes, France. 1868. — 1031, 
 1646. 
 
 Browne, Sir Thomas, b. 
 London. Eng., 1605; d. Nor- 
 wich, Eng. , 16S2. — 398, 503, 
 600. 1983. 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen. b. 
 Cummington, Mass.. 1794 ; d. 
 New York City, 1878. —1424, 
 1678. 
 
 B u 1 w e r-]Lytton, Edward 
 Georjje Earle Eytton 
 (Baron Lytton). b. Norfolk 
 Eng.. 1805: d. Torquay] 
 France. 1873. — 37, 231, 257.' 
 908. 1148, 1211. 1350. 1539. 1542, 
 1610. 1897. 
 
AUTH - 
 
 
 Bun-, i >. John. o\r, 
 
 Em ".58; d. Lou 
 
 1232, 1368, 
 
 !'. _ . . William Cecil, 
 
 I iL o. Boom, Lincoln- 
 
 -. Eng., 153); d. 1598.— 
 
 Burke. Edmund. b.Dublin, 
 
 a 1797.-27,63,101 
 
 . - - - 
 
 _- 181 : U, ;: 3 
 
 1821, 1 . 1952, 
 
 :: 
 
 Barton. Robert. ' . L::: :".-". 
 1640.— o 12 
 1174, 1263, 1291, 
 
 Bu-hnell, Horace, b. New 
 -:on, Conn., 1803 
 Hartford, Conn., 1876. — 1071. 
 Cable, G 
 ton. b. New Orleans, La., 
 1-44 : . . . . — 1767. 
 1. E. — 
 
 • in, John Gal I 
 Abbeville • 
 
 Washington, D.C., 
 — 1250. 
 Calve rse Hem 
 
 Baltimore, M-l .. 1S03; <L 
 :■ • — \74 
 Campbell. Lor.l John. b. 
 near Cupar, Scot ; <L 
 
 London. E _ J6L —895. 
 Carlvlp. Thorn i-. 
 fechan, So L Chel- i 
 
 sea, near L g. % 1881. 
 
 — J05. 
 
 599, 736, 800, 
 
 -4. mv ^:. :v.:. :>. y ; v;. 
 
 '. 114*3. Ill " 
 
 - - 
 ... 
 
 -. :-•- i: - 
 
 1886, 1893, 194. _ 2094 
 
 ■-'111. 2113 . .123. 
 
 : u*. b. 
 Tusculum, Italv. 234 I 
 «1 I : «33. 
 
 lUns, ( J - Valerias. 
 
 * or near Verona, Italy. 
 
 " - " i. about ffi B — 
 
 I i 
 fruel de. b. Aleala de 
 nares, Spa:: Madrid, 
 
 - tin, 1616. — 38, 145. 
 155. 19 3 _ . . ,. --.- 
 454, 530, 594, 730, 806, 829, 913, 
 
 ' MB 77, 10 ". :_ 
 : 74. 14- ". :" 4. i:-7 : : 
 
 1729, 1934, 1984, 1987, 
 1993, 2062. 
 
 Cliannin?. TTillJ ' ery. 
 
 b. Newport. K. L, 17S0; d. 
 Bennington. Vt.. 1813 . — _:. 
 274 422 517 
 
 =74 ... :>: 141', 
 
 meld. Paul. _ T^I.D. 
 (Horace Smith i. b. London, 
 El:_ .'_".• Tnnbridge 
 
 1849.— 430. 
 fh ~ Lord (Philip 
 
 Dormer Stanhope*, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1694 : I. 1773-8. 
 — . _ Ml _ - J35, 344. 
 
 35:- ,433 13 " U3 : 
 
 : . :,; :--.: : - 
 Child, Lv dj a 31 a ri a. b. 
 
 : . d. 
 
 1880—1024. 
 Chi I reece ; flourished 
 
 — : :- : : 
 Choate, Rufus. 
 
 1799 ;d. Halifax, > - 
 ffi 1115. 
 
 London. 
 Eng., 1671: d. 1753 
 C icero, lias. b. 
 
 r»innm. Italy, 106 
 Fonniae, Ita. — 5 
 
 481, 490. 695." 809, 915. 1 
 
 1305, 12S3, 1356. 1392, 1445. 
 
 ... . 
 
 Clasp, Henry. — 
 
 CI irk--. I>r Adam. b. near 
 ndonderrr, Ireland. 17 
 d. London,' . - 
 
 Clarke. Ja 
 
312 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 b. Hanover, N. H., 1810 ; d. 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1888. 
 
 — 116, 769, 1002, 1854. 
 Clay, Henry, b. "The 
 
 Slashes," Hanover County, 
 Va., 1777; d. Washington, 
 D. C, 1852. — 1612. 
 
 Cleveland, Grover. b. Cald- 
 well, N. J., 1837 ; . . . 252,492. 
 
 Coke, Sir Edward, b. Mile- 
 ham, Eng., 1552; d. Stoke 
 Pogis, Eng., 1633. — 186, 269. 
 
 Coleridge, Hartley, b. near 
 Bristol, Eng., 1796 ; d. Rydal 
 Water, Eng., 1849. —935, 
 1401. 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 
 b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. 
 London, Eng., 1834. — 337, 
 840, 1887. 
 
 Collyer, Rohert. b. Keighly, 
 Eng., 1823; — 1311. 
 
 Colton, Charles Caleb, b. 
 England, 1780 ; d. Fontaine- 
 bleau, France, 1832. — 54, 
 266, 574, 607, 630, 1084, 1942. 
 
 Confucius, b. Shang-ping, 
 Lu, China, 551 B. c. ; d. Lu, 
 China, 499 B, c. — 191, 1711, 
 1818, 2095. 
 
 Congreve, William, b. 
 Bardsey, Eng., 1670; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1729.— 586, 752, 
 884, 1099, 1164, 1425, 2044. 
 
 Cook, Joseph, b. Ticonde- 
 roga, N.Y., 1838; d. Ticonde- 
 roga, N.Y., 1901. — 419, 682. 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore. 
 b. Burlington, N. J., 1789; d. 
 Cooperstown, N. Y., 1851. — 
 871, 1301, 1564. 
 
 Cowper, William, b. Great 
 Berkhamstead, Hertford- 
 shire, Eng., 1731; d. 1800. 
 
 — 479. 
 Cumberland, Richard, 
 
 Bishop, b. London, Eng., 
 
 1632 ; d. 1718. — 2113. 
 Curtis, George William. 
 
 b. Providence, R. I., 1824; d. 
 
 1892.— 25, 765, 1320, 1361, 
 
 1580, 1620, 1855, 2008, 2120. 
 Cushman, Charlotte. b. 
 
 Boston, Mass., 1816 ; d. Liv- 
 erpool, Eng., 1876. — 69, 1228. 
 
 Daniel, Samuel, b. Taun- 
 ton, Eng., 1562; d. 1619.— 
 1449. 
 
 Davies, Scrope Berdmore. 
 b. England, d. 1852. — 
 
 1192. 
 
 Dawson, George, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1821; d. Kings- 
 norton, near Birmingham, 
 Eng., 1876. — 717. 
 
 Dawson, Sir John "Wil- 
 liam, b. Pictou, N.S., 1820; 
 d. 1899.— 95. 
 
 Decatur, Stephen, b. Sinne- 
 puxent, Md., 1779; d. Bla- 
 densburg, Md., 1820. — 1116. 
 
 De Foe, Daniel, b. London, 
 Eng., 1661 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1731. — 818, 981. 
 
 Democritus. b. Abdera, in 
 Thrace, Greece, between 490 
 and 460 B.C. — 436, 714, 812, 
 1463, 1707. 
 
 Dennis, John. b. London, 
 Eng., 1657 ; d. 1734. — 1895. 
 
 De Quincey, Thomas, b. 
 Greenhay, Manchester, Eng., 
 1786 ; d. Edinburgh, Scot., 
 1859. — 679, 1644, 1756. 
 
 Dewey, Orville. b. Sheffield, 
 Mass., 1794; d. Sheffield, 
 Mass., 1882. — 1888. 
 
 Dickens, Charles, b Land- 
 port, near Portsmouth, Eng., 
 1812 ; d. Gadshill, near Ro- 
 chester, Eng., 1870. — 223, 
 226, 369, 596, 645, 1212, 1444, 
 1658, 1663, 1753, 1896, 1923, 2042. 
 
 Dig-by, S ir Kenelm. b. 
 Buckinghamshire,Eng.,1603; 
 d. 1665. — 1433. 
 
 Diogenes ILaertius. Circa 
 200. —50, 413,1527. 
 
 Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of 
 Beaconsfield). b. London, 
 Eng., 1804 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1881. — 15, 35, 48, 80, 197, 224, 
 286, 321, 460, 745, 813, 861, 
 1057, 1244, 1251, 1270, 1284, 
 1470, 1600, 1629, 1701, 1735, 
 1804, 1827, 1834, 2026. 
 
INDEX Oh" AUTHORS. 
 
 313 
 
 Disraeli, Isaac, b. near 
 Knfield, Eug., 17G(J ; d. 
 Bucks, Eng., 1848.— 631, 1172, 
 1529. 
 
 Dix, John Adams, b. Bos- 
 cawen, N. 11., 1798; d. New 
 York City, 1879. — 30. 
 
 Draper, John Willi ana. b. 
 St. Helens, near Liverpool, 
 Eng., 1811; d. Hastings-on- 
 the-Hudson, N. Y., 1882.— 
 857. 
 
 Drummond, Henry. b. 
 Stirling, Eng., 1851 ; d. Tun- 
 bridge Wells, Eng., 1897.— 
 779, 786, 799, 907, 1187, 1330, 
 1618. 
 
 Dry den, John. b. Aldwinc- 
 kle, Eng., 1631 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1700.-61,943, 1919. 
 
 Dutfield, Samuel Wil- 
 loughby. b. Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., 1843 ; d. Bloomfield, N. J., 
 1887. — 1299, 1588, 1626. 
 
 Ebers, George Moritz. b. 
 Berlin, Germany, 1837 ; d. 
 Tutzing, Bavaria, 1898. — 632. 
 
 Eliot, George (Marian Evans 
 Cross), b. Arbury Farm, 
 Warwickshire, Eng., 1819 ; 
 d. London, Eng., 1880.— 213, 
 326, 343, 500, 798, 862, 950, 995, 
 1073, 1100, 1230, 1254, 1321, 
 1568, 1828, 1842, 2075. 
 
 Elliot, George Thomson. 
 b. New York City, 1827 ; d. 
 New York City, 1871. — 510. 
 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 
 b. Boston, Mass., 1803; d. 
 Concord, Mass., 1882. — 47, 
 70, 107, 110, 129, 137, 156, 203, 
 209, 217, 230, 246, 254, 261, 276, 
 294, 370, 400, 433, 437, 439, 443, 
 464, 542, 556, 593, 641, 668, 672, 
 690, 715, 737, 780, 801, 802, 826, 
 834, 849, 930, 936, 944, 982, 
 1046, 1063, 1086, 1090, 1101, 
 1108, 1239, 1255, 1324, 1380, 
 1411, 1426, 1441, 1466, 1505, 
 1509. 1530, 1531, 1534, 1543, 
 1587, 1613, 1649, 1715, 1742, 
 1743, 1744, 1752, 1779, 1813, 
 1862, 1880, 18S9, 1899, 1943, 
 
 1962, 2021, 2025, 2096, 2121, 
 2124. 
 
 Emmet, Robert, b. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1780 ; d. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1803.— 468. 
 
 Epicharmus. b. in Greece, 
 nourished 485 B. c — 142J . 
 
 Epictetus. b. Hierapolis, 
 Phyrgia, Asia Minor, 1st 
 centurv ; d. 2d century. — 93, 
 339, 480. 
 
 Erasmus, Desiderius. b. 
 Rotterdam, Holland, 1465- 
 67 ; d. Bale, Switzerland, 
 1536. — 1878. 
 
 Euripides. b. Salamis, 
 Greece, 480 B. c. ; d. 406 B. c. 
 — 237, 757, 891, 1702, 1907. 
 
 Everett, Edward, b. Dor- 
 chester, Mass., 1794 ; d. Bos- 
 ton, Mass., 1865. — 1480, 1968. 
 
 Farquhar, George, b. Lon- 
 donderry, Ireland, 1678 ; d. 
 London, Eng., 1707. — 2076. 
 
 Felltham, Owen. b. 1608-10 ; 
 d. about 1678. — 1769. 
 
 Field, David Dudley, b. 
 Haddam, Conn., 1805; d. 
 1894. — 1969. 
 
 Fielding, Henry, b. Sharp- 
 ham Park, Eng., 1707 ; d. 
 Lisbon, Spain, 1754.— 388, 425, 
 558. 
 
 Fiske, John. b. Hartford, 
 Conn., 1842; d. Gloucester, 
 Mass., July 4, 1901. —91, 643, 
 846. 
 
 Fletcher, Andrew, b. Sal- 
 toun, Scotland, 1653 ; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1716. — 121. 
 
 Foote, Samuel, b. Cornwall, 
 Eng., about 1720; d. 1777. — 
 789, 1481. 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin, b. 
 Boston, Mass., 1706; d. Phil- 
 adelphia, Penn., 1790. — 28, 
 159, 181, 275, 277. 322, 333, 361, 
 493, 566, 587, 623, 738, 827, 858, 
 887, 902, 1035, 1039, 1047, 1213, 
 1265, 1269, 1292, 1357, 1397, 
 1416, 1454, 1478, I486, 1549, 
 1594, 1661, 1675, 1733, 1805, 
 1900, 1906, 2009, 2031. 
 
314 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fronde, James Anthony. 
 
 b. Totness, Eng., 1818 ; d. 
 
 1894. — 1, 1026, 1393, 1555. 
 Fuller, Thomas, b. Ald- 
 
 winckle, Eng., 1608 ; d. 1GG1. 
 
 — 265, 428, 491, 731, 1064, 1521. 
 Garfield, James Abrain. 
 
 b. Orange, O., 1831 ; d. El- 
 boron, N. J., 1881. — 721, 803. 
 
 Garrison, William Lloyd. 
 b. Newburyport, Mass., 1804 ; 
 d. X. Y. City, 1879. —770. 
 
 George, Henry, b. Philadel- 
 phia, Penn., 1839 ; d. 1897.— 
 1003. 
 
 Gibbon, Edward, b. Put- 
 ney, Eng., 1737; d. London, 
 Eng., 1794. — 1262. 
 
 Gladden, Washington, b. 
 Pittsgrove, Penn., 1836 ; 
 
 — 164, 1635, 1802,2097. 
 Gladstone, William 
 
 Ewart. b. Liverpool, Eng., 
 1809 ; d. liawarden, Eng., 
 1898. —1195, 1306, 1343, 1499, 
 1621. 
 
 Godwin, William, b. Wis- 
 beach, Eng., 1756 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1836; — 1055, 1087. 
 
 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 
 von. b. Frankfort-on-the 
 Main, Germany, 1749 ; d.Wef- 
 mar, Germany, 1832. — 102, 
 130, 637,867, 1156, 1843. 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, b. Pal- 
 lis, Ireland, 1728 ; d. London, 
 Eng. , 1774. — 320, 551, 662, 810, 
 1169, 1208, 1703, 1786, 1992, 
 1997. 
 
 Grant, Ulysses Simpson. 
 b. Point Pleasant, O., 1822 ; 
 d. Mount McGregor, near 
 Saratoga, X. Y., 1885. — 1074, 
 1369, 1823. 
 
 Greg, William Rathbone. 
 b. Manchester, Eng., 1809 ; 
 d. 1881. — 879. 
 
 Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich. 
 b. Potsdam, Germany, 1834. 
 . . . . — 850,996, 1650. 
 
 Hale Edward Everett, b. 
 Boston, Mass., 1822; 
 
 — 1331, 1693, 1884. 
 
 Halihnrton, Thomas 
 Chandler (" Sam Slick "). 
 b. Windsor, Xova Scotia, 
 1797; d. Islesworth, Eng., 
 1865. — 227, 766, 2077. 
 
 Hall, Bishop Joseph, b. 
 Ashby de la Zouch, Eng., 
 1574 ; d. Higham, Eng., 1656. 
 
 — 280, 1207. 
 
 Hall, Robert, b. Arnsby, 
 Eng., 1764; d. Bristol, Eng., 
 1831.— 532. 
 
 Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. 
 b. near Lancashire, Eng., 
 1834; d. 1894. — 707, 1216, 
 i:341, 1474, 1588, 1792, 2114. 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, b. 
 island of Nevis, \V. 1., 1757 ; 
 d. New York, 1804.— 508, 1004. 
 
 Hare, Augustus William. 
 b. Herstmonceaux, Eng., 
 1793 ; d. Pome, Italy, 1834. 
 Julius Charles, b. Herst- 
 monceaux, Eng., 1796; d. 
 Herstmonceaux, Eng., 1855. 
 
 — 402, 1121, 1233,1498. 
 Harvey, Moses, b. Armagh, 
 
 Ireland, 1820; — 
 
 1944. 
 Haweis, Hugh Reginald. 
 b.Egham, Eng., 1838; 
 
 — 561,875,909. 
 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, b. 
 
 Salem, Mass., 1804; d. Ply- 
 mouth, X. 41., 1804. — 111, 
 112, 229, 354, 431, 482, 663, 925, 
 1198, 1220, 1632, 1760, 1814, 
 1901, 2047, 2098. 
 
 Haydon,Renjamin Robert. 
 b. Plymouth, Eng., 1786; d. 
 London, Eng. , 1846. — 353 , 
 381, 901, 1677. 1871, 1998. 
 
 Hayes, Rutherford Bireh- 
 ard. b. Delaware, O., 1822 ; 
 d. 1893. — 1347. 
 
 Hazlitt, William, b. Maid- 
 stone, Eng., 1778 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1830. —20, 29, 318, 383, 
 406, 494, 527, 933, 1184, 1277, 
 1475, 1511, 1639, 1655, 1732, 
 1829, 1965, 2063, 2127. 
 
 Heine, Heinrich. b. DUssel- 
 dorf, Germany, 1799 ; d. 
 
JNDKX OK AUTHORS. 
 
 315 
 
 Paris, France, 1850. — 141, 
 278, 612, 1105, 1427. 
 
 Helper, Hinton Rowan. b. 
 near Mocksville, N. C, 1820; 
 —1721. 
 
 Helps, Sir Arthur. T>. Eng- 
 land, 1818; d. London, Eng., 
 1875. — 1083. 
 
 Henry, Matthew, b. Broad 
 Oak, Iscoyd, Eng., 1GG2 ; d. 
 Hackney, Eng., 1714. — 708, 
 1800. 
 
 Henry, Patrick, b. Studley, 
 Va., 1736; d. Red Hill, Va., 
 1709. — 1048, 1926. 
 
 Herbert, George. b. in 
 Montgomery Castle, Wales, 
 1503 ; d. Bernerton, Wales, 
 1632. — 391. 
 
 Herschel, Sir John Fred- 
 erick William, b. Slough, 
 Eng., 1792; d. Collingwood, 
 near Hawkhurst, Eng., 1871. 
 —1686. 
 
 Hesiod. b. at Ascra, in Boeo- 
 tia, Greece. Flourished 800 
 13. C— 362, 1912. 
 Hewitt, Abram Stevens. 
 b. Haverstravv, N. Y., 1822 ; 
 —1439. 
 
 Hey wood, John. b. in Eng- 
 land in the reign of Henry 
 VIII. ; d. about 1565. — 151, 
 175, 310, 346, 462, 775, 776, 021, 
 046, 1810. 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Went- 
 worth. b. Cambridge, 
 
 Mass., 1823; — 71,660, 
 
 739, 1015, 1159, 1571, 1622, 1860, 
 2078. 
 
 Hillard, George Stillman. 
 b. Machias, Me., 1808; d. 
 Boston, Mass., 1879.— 740, 
 1050, 1202, 1748. 
 
 Hoar, George Frisbie. b. 
 
 Concord, Mass., 1826; 
 
 — 880. 
 
 Holland, Josiah Gilbert. 
 1). Belchertown, Mass., 1810; 
 (1. New York City, 1881.— 65, 
 583, 815, 856, 876, 877, 1036, 
 1151, 1360, 1413, 1400, 1676, 
 1807, 2045, 2088. 
 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 
 
 b. Cambridge, Mass., 1800 ; 
 
 d. 1801.— ,40, 158, 581, 755, 
 024, 000, 1016, 1060, 1302, 1314, 
 1574, 1844, 1027, 1028, 2070. 
 
 Hooker. Gen. Joseph* b. 
 Hadley, Mass., 1819 ; d. Gar- 
 den City, N. Y., 1870. — 87. 
 
 Hooker, Richard, b. 
 Heavytree, near Exeter, 
 Eng., 1553-54; d. Bishops- 
 bourne, near Canterbury, 
 Eng., 1000. — 057, 2046. 
 
 Hopkins, Mark. b. Stock- 
 bridge, Mass., 1802 ; d. 
 Williamstown, Mass., 1887. 
 — 1045. 
 
 Horace (Quintus Horatius 
 Flaccus). b. Venusia (now 
 Venosa), Italy, 65 B.C. ; d. 8 
 B.C. — 817. 
 
 Howell, James. b. noir 
 Brecknock, Wales, 1504-6 ; 
 d. 1666.-387,758, 1836. 
 
 Howells, William Dean. 
 b. Martinsville, O., 1837; 
 
 — 837, 1178, 1464, 1403, 
 
 1557, 1600, 1737, 2080. 
 
 Hoyle, Edmund, b. in Eng- 
 land, 1672; d. 1760. —300. 
 
 Hugo, Victor Marie, b. 
 Besancon, France, 1802 ; d, 
 Paris, 1885. —58, 131, 307, 
 773, 832, 851, 1582, 1916, 2026. 
 
 Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm 
 von. b. Potsdam, Germany, 
 1767; d. Tegel, Germany, 
 1835.— 1041, 1507. 
 
 Hume, David. b. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1711 ; d. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1776. — 108, 187, 
 830,003, 1119, 1380, 1881, 2010. 
 
 Hunt, Helen. See JACKSON, 
 Helen Maim a Fiske. 
 
 Hunt, James Henry Leigh. 
 b. London, Eng.,' 1784 ; d. 
 Highgate, London, Eng., 
 1850. — 306, 335,567,886, 1680, 
 1832, 1864, 2081. 
 
 Huxley, Thomas IH'iirv. 
 b. Ealing, Middlesex, Eng.. 
 1825 ; d. Eastbourne, 1895. - 
 397,511, 605, 1129. 
 
316 DICTIONARY OF PKOSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Irving, Washington. b. 
 
 New York City, 1783 ; d. 
 Irvington, N. Y., 1859. — 325, 
 394, 673, 1770. 
 
 Isocrates. b. 436 B.C.; d. 
 338 B.C. — 1287. 
 
 Jackson, Andrew, b. Wax- 
 haw Settlement, N. and S. 
 Carolina, 1767 ; d. Nashville, 
 Tenn., 1845. — 1970. 
 
 Jackson (H. H.), Helen 
 Maria Fiske. b. Amherst, 
 Mass., 1831; d. San Fran- 
 cisco, CaL, 1885. — 2099. 
 
 James, Henry, b. Albany, 
 N. Y., 1811 ; d. Cambridge, 
 Mass., 1882. —72. 
 
 Jameson, Anna. b. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1797 ; d. London, 
 Eng., I860. — 1256. 
 
 J e ffe rso n, Thomas, b. 
 Shadwell, Va., 1743 ; d. 
 Monticello, Ya., 1826. —171, 
 272, 470, 497, 1052, 1117, 1296, 
 1300, 1303, 1307, 1312, 1315, 
 1316, 1322, 1328, 1339, 1348, 
 
 1362, 1370, 1376 1417, 1434, 
 1442, 1471, 1476, 1487, 1497, 
 1524, 1551, 1556, 1572, 1614, 
 1618, 1628, 1674, 1717, 1722, 
 1789, 1856, 1860, 1918, 1974. 
 
 Jerrold, Hong-las William. 
 b. London, Eng., 1803 ; d. 
 London, Eng., 1857. — 423, 
 1088, 1112, 1575, 1718. 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, b. 
 Lichfield, Eng., 1709; d. 
 London, Eng., 1784. —18, 36, 
 46, 97, 103, 172, 198, 221, 225, 
 264, 285, 323, 355, 415, 442, 450, 
 467, 475, 488, 489, 552, 592, 597, 
 617, 633, 658, 706, 835, 852, 883, 
 919, 922, 923, 934, 940, 955, 978, 
 997, 1038, 1137, 1153, 1160, 1168, 
 1179, 1209, 1246, 1252, 1345, 
 
 1363, 1364, 1375, 1383, 1405, 
 1418, 1419, 1578, 1619, 1771, 
 1825, 1865, 1873, 1920, 1937, 
 1946, 1966, 1989, 2000, 2019, 
 2056, 2064, 2125, 2135. 
 
 Jones, Sir William, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1746 ; d. Calcutta, 
 India, 1794. — 396. 
 
 J o n s o n, Ben. b. London, 
 Eng., 1573-4; d. London, Eng, 
 1637, — 182, 531, 657, 1482, 1853. 
 
 Jonl>ert,Barthele my 
 Catharine, b. Pont-de- 
 Yaux, in Bresse, France, 
 1769 ; d. Novi, Italy, 1799. — 
 73, 195, 1167, 1404, 2100. 
 
 Junius. An English writer 
 (reign of George III.), 
 thought to be Sir Philip 
 Francis.— 303. 
 
 Kempis, Thomas a. b. 
 Kempsen, near Cologne. Ger- 
 many, 1379-80 ; d. Mount St. 
 Agnes, near Zwolle, Nether- 
 lands, 1471. — 228, 699, 1102. 
 
 King, Thomas Starr, b. 
 New York Citv, 1824 ; d. San 
 Francisco, CaL, 1864. — 59, 
 444, 1257, 1783. 
 
 Kingsley, Charles, b. Dart- 
 moor, Eng., 1819: d. Eyers- 
 ley, Eng. 1875. — 420, 675, 
 967, 1634. 
 
 Kipling, Rndyard. b. Bom- 
 bay, India, 1865 ; — 
 
 185,897, 1161,1978,2082. 
 
 Kossuth, !Lajos. b.Monok, 
 Zemplen, Hungary, 1802 ; d. 
 1894.— 983. 
 
 Ijabonlaye, Edonard Rene 
 Lefebvre. b. Paris, France, 
 1811 ; d. Paris, France, 1883. 
 — 700, 750,2032. 
 
 Ha Bmyere, Jean de. b. 
 Dourdan, Normandy, 1639 ; 
 d. Yersailles, France, 1696. — 
 55, 170, 283, 1379, 1465, 1845, 
 1990, 1999. 
 
 t,a Fontaine, Jean de. b. 
 Chateau-Thierry, France, 
 1621 ; d. Paris, 1695.— 453, 696. 
 
 Lamb, Charles, b. London, 
 Eng., 1775 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1834. —301, 529, 680, 1275, 1295, 
 1537, 1647, 1656, 1991, 2039. 
 
 Iiandor, Walter Savage, b. 
 Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, 
 Eng.,"l775; d. Florence, Italy, 
 1864.— 42, 248,289, 345, 523, 
 535, 716, 728, 985, 1278, 1390, 
 1736, 1866, 1947, 2017. 
 
INDEX OF AUTHORS. 
 
 317 
 
 Lang, Andrew, b. Selkirk, 
 
 Scot., 1844 ; .... —685. 
 Langford, John Alfred, b. 
 
 Birmingham, Eng., 1823; . . . 
 — 2057. 
 
 La Rochefoucauld, Fran- 
 cois Due de. b. Paris, 
 France, 1613; d. Paris, 
 France, 1680. — 2, 16, 382, 578, 
 584, 598, 664, 677, 686, 839, 844, 
 853, 941, 958, 1231, 1745, 2128. 
 
 Lecky, Williani Edward 
 Hartpole. b. near Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1838; .... —609, 
 1127, 1294. 
 
 lie Sage, Alain Rene. b. 
 Sarzeau, France, 1668 ; d. 
 Boulogne, 1747. — 510, 774, 
 1103, 1180, 1501, 1708, 1931. 
 
 Lessiug, Gotthold Eph- 
 raim. b. Camenz, Germany, 
 1729 ; d. Brunswick, Ger- 
 many, 1781.-2011,2083. 
 
 Lewes, George Henry, b. 
 London, Eng., 1817 ; d. Wite- 
 ly, Surrey, Eng., 1878. —104, 
 541, 1237. 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham, b. Har- 
 din, now Larue Count v, Kv., 
 1809; d. Washington/ D. C, 
 1865.— 205, 260, 421, 613, 614, 
 1138, 1615. 
 
 Iiivy, Titus, b. Patavium 
 (Padua), Italy, 56-61 b. c. ; 
 d. about 17-20 A. D. — 178, 
 1028, 1936. 
 
 Locke, John. b. Wrington, 
 Eng., 1632; d. Oates, Eng., 
 1704. —474, 6S8, 1005, 1754, 
 1948. 
 
 Longfellow, Henry 'Wads- 
 worth, b. Portland, Me., 
 1807 ; d. Cambridge, Mass., 
 1882. — 106, 458, 465, 905, 1109, 
 1645, 1772, 1780, 1816, 1902, 
 2129. 
 
 Lorimer, George Claude. 
 b. Scotland, 1838; . . . . — 
 270, 1149, 1386, 1643. 
 
 Louis XVIII., Stanislas 
 Xavier. b. Versailles, 
 France, 1755 ; d. Paris, 
 France, 1824. —1513. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell, b. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., 1819 ; d. 
 1891. — 7, 62, 79, 350, 446, 447, 
 495, 514, 534, 791, 872, 906, 937, 
 1070, 1113, 1193, 1247, 1248, 
 1335, 1400, 1430, 1458, 1464, 
 1516, 1650, 1712, 1757, 1773, 
 1795, 1808, 1840, 1891, 2030, 
 2033, 2054, 2101, 2109, 2130. 
 
 Luther, Martin, b. Eisle- 
 ben, Saxony, 1483 ; d. Eisie- 
 ben, Saxony, 1546. — 199, 781, 
 1467, 1713, 2034. 
 
 Lyly, John. b. Kent, Eng., 
 about 1553 ; d. about 1600. — 
 568, 1067. 
 
 Lytton, Lord. See Bulvee- 
 Lyttox. 
 
 Macaulay, Thomas B ald- 
 ington, b. Rothley Temple, 
 Eng., 1800; d. Kensington, 
 Eng., 1859. — 12, 89, 90, 142, 
 288, 331, 395, 533, 647, 807, 952, 
 954, 971, 1325, 1420, 1435, 1453, 
 1766. 
 
 Macdonald, George. b. 
 Huntlev, Scot., 1824; .... 
 
 — 218, 518. 
 Mackintosh, Sir James, b. 
 
 Aldourie, near Inverness, 
 Scot., 1765 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1832. — 889. 
 
 Mann, Horace, b. Frank- 
 lin, Mass., 1796 ; d. Yellow 
 Springs, O., 1859. — 1723, 1949. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius. b. Home, 
 121 A.D. ; d. 180 A.D. —3, 132, 
 268, 316, 329, 358, 478, 512, 
 1095, 1282, 1522. 
 
 Marcy, William Learned. 
 b. Southbridge, Mass., 1768 ; 
 d. Ballston Spa, N. Y., 1857. 
 — 1791. 
 
 Marryat, Frederick. b. 
 London, Eng., 1792 ; d. 1848. 
 
 — 640. 
 
 Menander. b. Athens, 
 Greece, 342 B.C. ; drowned in 
 the harbor of the Pineus, 
 Athens, Greece, 291 B.C. — 
 1642. 
 
 Mencius. b. China, 371 B.C. ; 
 d. 288 B.C. — 140. 
 
318 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Metcalf, Charles Theophi- 
 lus. b. Calcutta, India, 
 1785 ; d. Basingstoke, Eng., 
 1846.— 588. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas, flour- 
 ished in reigns of Elizabeth, 
 James I., and Charles I. ; 
 d. about 1626. — 1503. 
 
 Mill, John Stuart, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1806 ; d. Avignon, 
 France, 1873. — 77, 429, 1317, 
 1332, 1552, 1014. 
 
 Milman, Kev. Henry Hart. 
 b. London, Eng., 1791 ; d. 
 1868. — 100, S47, 1210, 1327. 
 
 Milton, John. b. London, 
 Eng., 1608 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1674. —304, 40S, 438, 1431, 1696, 
 1950, 1964, 2102, 2136. 
 
 Moliere (Jean Baptiste 
 Poquelin). b. Paris, France, 
 1622; d. 1673.-215,513. 
 
 Montaigne, Michel Sei- 
 
 fueur de. b. Perigord, 
 ranee, 1533 ; d. Perigord, 
 France, 15S9-92. — 52, 196, 
 245, 582, 659, 756, 1569, 1672. 
 
 Morris, William, b. Eng- 
 land, 1S34; d. 1896. — 563. 
 
 Musonius Rufus, Cains. 
 about 70 A. d. — 1581. 
 
 Napoleon, L.ouis. b. Paris, 
 France, 1808 ; d. Chiselhurst, 
 Eng., 1S73.— 449. 
 
 Nelson, Horatio, b. Burn- 
 ham Thorpe, Norfolk, Eng., 
 1758; d. 1805. — 461. 
 
 Newman, John Henry, b. 
 London, Eng., 1S01 ; d. 1890. 
 — 82. 
 
 Norton, Caroline Elizabeth 
 Sarah Sheridan, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1808; d. 1877.— 
 1009. 
 
 Oliphant, Margaret (Wil- 
 son), b. Liverpool, Eng., 
 1S2S; d. 1897. — 639. 
 
 Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. 
 b. Cambridgeport, Mass., 
 1810; d. off Fi^e Island 
 Beach, N.Y., 1850. — 863. 
 
 Ouida (Louise de la Ramee). 
 b. Bury St. Edmund's, Eng., 
 
 1840 ;.... — 1176, 1222, 1641, 
 1684, 1830. 
 
 Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). 
 b. Sulmo (Sulmona), ninety 
 miles east of Rome, 43 b. c; 
 d. at Toini, 18 A. D. — 298, 
 1698. 
 
 Paine, Thomas, b. Thet- 
 ford, Eng., 1737 ; d. New 
 York City, 1S09. — 1801. 
 
 Palev, William, b. Peter- 
 borough, Eng., 1743 ; d. 1805. 
 — 1738. 
 
 Pairvasis. b. Greece ; d. about 
 460 B. C — 2049. 
 
 Parker, Edward Griffin. 
 b. Boston, Mass., 1825 ; d. 
 New York City, 1868. — 1326. 
 
 Parker, Theodore, b. Lex- 
 ington, Mass., 1810 ; d. Flor- 
 ence, Italy, I860.— 302, 366, 
 1443, 1455, 1670, 1806, 2065. 
 
 Parkhurst, Charles Henry. 
 b. Framingham, Mass., 1842; 
 .... —376,792, 1451, 1697. 
 
 Patmore, Coventry. b. 
 Woodford, Essex, 1823; d. 
 1896. — 1358, 1395, 1446, 1544, 
 2084. 
 
 Pepys, Samuel, b. 1633; d. 
 1703.— 342, 364, 6S3, 1162. 
 
 Phaedrus. Flourished 
 about 20 a. p. — 610. 
 
 Phelps, Elizabeth Stnart 
 (Mrs. Ward), b. Mass., 1844 ; 
 . . . .—96. 
 
 Phillips, Charles, b. Sligo, 
 Ireland, about 1788 ; d. 1859. 
 — 1333. 
 
 Phillips, Wendell, b. Bos- 
 ton, Mass., 1811 ; d. Boston, 
 Mass., 18S4. — 8, 486, 670, 749, 
 824, 931, 1006, 1139, 1224, 1318, 
 1388, 1491, 1512, 1514, 1517, 
 1583, 1601, 1796, 1908, 1909. 
 
 Piatt, Donn. b. Cincinnati, 
 O., 1819; d. 1891. — 805, 1060, 
 1953. 
 
 Pilpay (or Bidpai). flour- 
 ished several centuries be- 
 fore Christ. — 1623. 
 
 Pinckney, Charles Cotes- 
 worth, b. Charleston, S.(\, 
 
INDEX OF Al 
 
 
 1746; d. Chariest :. 8. C. 
 1825.— : 
 
 Pinkney, William, b. Axi- i 
 
 na 4 ; d. Wash- 
 
 ing: -'.—1323. 
 
 Pitt, William I of 
 
 Chatham. b. Boconi 
 Ei _ Eng., 
 
 177-. - S, 255, 1027, 12 
 
 Plato. ; . - 
 
 ; d. 
 A7SB. e. — : 
 33S, 1104, 1730. 
 PI a utus , Ti t u B M ac eras. 
 
 - rsina, II ly, about 254 
 B.C. ; d. 184 B. c — 
 
 701, 1719. 
 
 Pliny the Flder Caina Plin- | 
 ins Secnndus). b. Verona 
 r Conioi, Italy, 23 a. j>. ; 
 A.i'. — : : . : 37. 
 
 Pliny the Younger (Cains 
 Plinius Csecilius Becundi 
 b. Yerona (or Com 11 
 61 or 
 Italy. 110 a. D. — 315, 665. 
 
 Plutarch, b. Chaeronea, in 
 Boeotia, Greee-r. 45-E ; d. 
 probably Chaeronea, in 
 Boeoti 120 — 
 
 9, 161, 299, 338. i V 7 992, 
 1011. 104 . 1437, : 
 
 Poe, Edgar Allan, b. 
 ton. Mass d. Balti- 
 
 more. M :.. 18J — . :_^ 
 
 Ponipadour, <le. 3Irue. 
 Jeanne Antoinette Pois- 
 «.oii Mai I 
 
 France, 1721 5 I. 1764. — a 
 
 Pope, Alexander, b. Lon- I 
 b. Twicken- ! 
 haii.. Eng., 1744.— U 
 
 Porter. >oah. b. Farming- 
 ton, Conn.. :-._ — 
 
 Prescott, William. Hick- 
 ling, born Salem, M n., 
 
 — 144. 312. 
 Priestlev, Joseph, b. F: 
 
 head. Eng., 1733 ; d. North- 
 
 Ull :.— 
 
 1334, 
 
 Publius Stttls. b. Syrii 
 B.C.— 43. :, . 177. 183, 626, 
 1199. 1494. 
 
 P u r c fa a B . SamaeL I 
 
 TL 
 
 d. If.: — 
 
 Pythagoras, b. Samos, 
 
 ■f..< . — : ' . 
 Rabelais, Francois. b. 
 
 Li:: :■:.. F: .-,:.-. r. :-« 
 Paris. 1 1553.— 
 
 _ 
 
 124" :. -. 
 Riehter, Jean Paul Fried- 
 rieli. 
 
 m: 1763; dL Bairenth. 
 
 ::.:. — _::. :~ 
 
 Robertson. Frederick 
 William, b. London. Eng., 
 1816; d. Brighton. F 
 — 968. 
 
 Robinson, John. b. Eng- 
 land, 1 ; 7 : : 1 - D . M eth- 
 erlands. 1 _" — : 
 
 Roland, 3Janon Jeanne 
 Phlipon. b. I .r:?. France, 
 1754 ;<L I axis, France ." ! 
 — 1 
 
 Rosebery, Lord Archi- 
 '.': 1 _ : ". ■ ■ F : : i_ r ; 5 r . ':• . 
 1847; .—1315. 
 
 Rousseau. Jean- Jacques. 
 b. Si ::i : and, 
 
 1712 ; d. EnnenonYille, nc 11 
 I rfe 1 nee. 1778. — 118, 
 12 .. 
 
 Roux, Joseph. b. TiiLe. 
 France, 1834 : . . . - — 477, 
 
 Ruskin. John. b. London, 
 Eng., 1819; d. 1900. — GO. 14, 
 76. 1 - - 747. 
 
 800, 868, S78. 911. 949. 988, 
 
 io:_ : 14, :. S 14 2, 
 
 : _ . 1: 
 
 1696 
 
 1874, 1873 - - • 
 
 2085. 2103. 2115. 21 
 
 li. Sheik M<>-lihed- 
 Din. 
 
 iz. Per- 
 sia, 1291. — k 1586. 
 
320 
 
 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sallust, Caius Crispus. b. 
 
 Amiternum, Italy, 86 B.C.; 
 d. Rome, Italy, 34 B. c. — 169. 
 
 Sanborn, Katherine Ab- 
 bott, b. Hanover, N. H., 
 1839 ;....— 440, 1660. 
 
 Schaff, Philip. b. Coire, 
 Switzerland, 1819; d. 1893. 
 — 1562. 
 
 Schiller, Johann Chris- 
 toph Friedrich von. b. 
 Marbach, Germany, 1759 ; d. 
 Weimar, Germany, 1805.— 
 134, 960, 963, 1975. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, b. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1771 ; d. Ab- 
 botsford, Scot., 1832. —548, 
 1010, 1267, 1611, 1749. 
 
 Seeley, Sir John Robert, b. 
 London,Eng.,1834; d. 3S95. 
 
 Selden, John. b. Salvington, 
 Eng., 1584 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1654.— 410, 471, 864, 979, 1042, 
 1532. 
 
 Seneca, Lucius Annseus. b. 
 Cordova, Spain, about 7 B.C. ; 
 d. Rome, Italy, 65 A. d. — 
 414, 434, 743, 932, 1204, 1725, 
 1774. 
 
 Seward, William Henry. 
 b. Florida, New York, 1801 ; 
 d. Auburn, New York, 1872. 
 — 256, 1029. 
 
 Shaftesbury, Anthony 
 Ashley Cooper, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1671; d. Naples, 
 1713.-528,1822. 
 
 Shakespeare, William, b. 
 Stratford - on - Avon, Eng. , 
 1564; d. Stratford-on-Avon, 
 Eng., 1616. —10, 26, 56, 81, 94, 
 98, 113, 123, 126, 162, 179, 184, 
 188, 189, 194, 208, 235, 243, 247, 
 251, 262, 279, 309, 311, 347, 352, 
 356, 377, 378, 390, 403, 401, 405, 
 411, 417, 424, 427, 451, 469, 472, 
 487, 496, 506, 515, 539, 546, 549, 
 559, 562, 565, 569, 589, 602, 604, 
 644, 651, 654, 676, 678, 689, 691, 
 705, 711, 732, 733, 741, 742, 746, 
 760, 761, 762, 767, 777, 783, 784, 
 787, 790, 793, 795, 819, 820, 833, 
 841, 845, 865, 873, 885, 900, 914, 
 
 916, 928, 939, 953, 964, 970, 9S4 
 989, 991, 993, 1000, 1021, 1030! 
 1032, 1033, 1034, 1061, 1062, 
 1077, 1081, 1105, 1106, U10, 
 1114, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125, 
 1128, 1131, 1132, 1133, 1134, 
 1136, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1144, 
 1145, .1150, 1152, 1154, 1157, 
 1171, 1175, 1183, 1185, 1186, 
 1197, 1200, 1215, 1217, 1241, 
 1249, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1268, 
 1272, 1273, 1288, 1290, 1297, 
 1305, 1308, 1313, 1319, 1329 
 1351, 1359, 1372, 1373, 1394 
 1396, 1408, 1422, 1450, 1468, 
 1479, 1483, 1488, 1495, 1525, 
 1533, 1547, 1553, 1566, 1567, 
 1570, 1576, 1588, 1595, 1630, 
 1681, 1683, 1685, 1714, 1731, 
 1746, 1750, 1764, 1775, 1782, 
 1787, 1817, 1826, 1838, 1847, 
 1848, 1849, 1863, 1867, 1870, 
 1876, 1893, 1903, 1917, 1924, 
 1932, 1977, 1985, 2002, 2003, 
 2004, 2012, 2015, 2027, 2038, 
 2050, 2051, 2052, 2060, 2066, 
 2067, 2068, 2086, 2087, 2104, 
 2105, 2106, 2131. 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. b. 
 near Horsham, Eng., 1792; 
 drowned in the Gulf of 
 Spezia, Italy, 1822. —1091, 
 1428, 1596, 1669. 
 
 Shepard, Thomas, b. Tow- 
 cester, Eng., 1605 ; d. Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., 1649. — 341. 
 
 Sheridan, Richard Brins- 
 ley. b. Dublin, Ireland, 
 1751 ; d. London, Eng., 1816. 
 — 39, 78, 127, 204, 718, 753, 
 956, 1276, 1336, 1510, 1986. 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, b. Pens- 
 hurst, Eng., 1554 ; d. Arn- 
 heim, Holland, 1586. — 190, 
 240, 1762, 1839. 
 
 Simonides. b. at Julis, in 
 the Island of Ceos, about 556 
 B.C. ; d. 467 B.C. — 1342. 
 
 Smiles, Samuel, b. Had- 
 dington, Scot., 1816; .... — 
 603, 904. 
 
 Smith, Adam. b. Kirkaldy, 
 Fifeshire, Scot., 1723; d. 
 
INDEX OF AUTHORS. 
 
 321 
 
 Edinburgh, Scot., 1790.— 
 1007, 1652. 
 
 Sinith, Alexander, b. Kil- 
 marnock, Scot., 1830 ; d. 
 Wardie, Scot., 1867.-5,319, 
 726, 1447, 1662. 1800. 
 
 Smith, Sydney, b. Wood- 
 ford, Eng., 1771 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1845. — 38G, 520, 697, 
 972, 1089, 1515, 1861, 2069. 
 
 Socrates, b. Athens, Greece, 
 470 b. c; d. Athens, Greece, 
 399-400 B. C. —2021, 2035. 
 
 Sophocles, b. Attica, Colo- 
 nus, 495 B. c.j d. 406 B. c — 
 63, 1788. 
 
 South, Robert, b. Hackney, 
 Eng., 1633 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1716. — 105, 788. 
 
 Spencer, Herbert, b. Derby, 
 Eng., about 1820 ;....— 
 
 114, 484, 591, 635, 1229, 1604, 
 1653, 1654, 1961, 1976. 
 
 Spenser, Edmund, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1553 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1559.— 1751. 
 
 Stael-Holstein, Anne Lou- 
 ise Germaine Necker, 
 Mine. de. b. Paris, France, 
 1766; d. Paris, France, 1817.— 
 671, 1519, 1858. 
 
 Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. 
 b. Cheshire, Eng., 1815; d. 
 1881. — 734, 2013. 
 
 Stedinan, Edmund Clar- 
 ence, b. Hartford, Conn., 
 1833; .... —287, 441, 540, 
 1432. 
 
 Steele, Sir Richard, b. Dub- 
 lin, Ireland, 1671-2 ; d. Llan- 
 gunnor, Wales, 1729. — 92, 
 
 115, 650, 1008, 1082, 1548, 1833. 
 Stephen, Leslie, b. Kensing- 
 ton, Eng., 1832; . . . . — 
 393. 
 
 Stephens, Alexander Ham- 
 ilton, b. Taliaferro County, 
 Ga., 1812; d. 1883. — 1726. 
 
 Sterling:, John. b. Isle of 
 Bute, Scot., 1806 ; d. Ventor, 
 Isle of Wight, Eng., 1844. — 
 448, 929, 999, 1126, 1340. 
 
 Sterne, Laurence, b. Clon- 
 
 mel, Ireland, 1713 ; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1768. — 180, 258, 
 1289, 1387, 1489, 2048. 
 
 Stevens, Abel. b. Philadel- 
 phia, Penn., 1815; d. 1897. 
 — 1436. 
 
 Stevens, Thaddeus. b. 
 Danville, Vt., 1792 ; d. Wash- 
 ington, D. C, 1868. — 722. 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis 
 Balfour. b. Edinburgh, 
 Scot., 1850; d. Island of 
 Samoa, 1894. — 564, 139 8, 
 1850. 
 
 Stewart, Dugald. b. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1753; d. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1828. — 1294. 
 
 Stillingfleet, Edward, b. 
 Cranbourn, Dorset, Eng., 
 1635 ; d. 1699. — 638. 
 
 Stoddard, Elizabeth (Bar- 
 stow), b. Matt apoisett , 
 Mass., 1823 ; . . . . —1758. 
 
 Story, Joseph, b. Marble- 
 head, Mass., 1779 ; d. Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., 1845. — 896. 
 
 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth 
 Beecher. b. Litchfield, 
 Conn., 1812 ; d. Hartford, 
 Conn., 1896. — 1066, 1768, 1959, 
 2041. 
 
 Sumner, Charles, b. Boston, 
 Mass., 1811 ; d. Washington, 
 D. C, 1874. —84, 608, 1727. 
 
 Swift, Jonathan, b. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1667 ; d. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1745. — 166, 167, 192, 
 291, 634, 1072, 1337, 1438, 1536, 
 1633, 1638. 
 
 Swinburne, Algernon 
 Charles, b. London, Eng., 
 1837 ;....— 135. 
 
 Tacitus, Cains Cornelius. 
 b. Interamna (modern Ter- 
 ni), Italy, about 60 ; d. about 
 120. — 40. 
 
 Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe. 
 b. Youziers, France, 1828 ; 
 d. 1893. — 1657. 
 
 Taylor, Edward T. b. 
 Richmond, Va., Dec. 25, 
 1793 ; d. Boston, Mass., 1871. 
 — 1659. 
 
322 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Terence, b. Carthage, about 
 195 B.C. ; d. about 158 B.C. — 
 67, 649, 898, 1868. 
 
 Tertullian. b. at Carthage, 
 about 160 a.d. ; d. 240 A.D. 
 
 — 148. 
 
 Thackeray, Aime Isabella 
 (Mrs. Ritchie), b. London, 
 Eng., 1842; .... —1409. 
 
 Thackeray, William Make- 
 peace, b. Calcutta, India, 
 1811 ; d. London, Eng., 1863. 
 
 — 348, 401, 543, 627, 748, 842, 
 1022, 1107, 1111, 1456, 1608, 
 1739, 1740, 1815, 1904. 
 
 Thales. b. Miletus, Asia 
 Minor. Flourished seventh 
 century B.C. — 828, 1485. 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David. 
 b. Concord, Mass., 1817 ; d. 
 Concord, Mass., 1862. — 628, 
 768, 1304. 
 
 Thucydides. b. Attica, 
 Greece, 471 B.C. ; d. about 
 401 B.C. — 866. 
 
 Titcomh, Timothy. See 
 Josiah Gilbert Holland. 
 
 Tolstoi, Count Lyof Niko- 
 layevitch. b. Yasnaya 
 Polyana, Tula, Russia, 1828 ; 
 . . . .—521, 1365, 1381, 1554, 
 1563, 1980, 2117. 
 
 Trollope, Anthony, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1815 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1882. — 407. 
 
 Upton, George Putnam, 
 b. Roxbury, Mass., 1834 ; 
 . . . . — 13. 
 
 Vaughan, Henry, b. Breck- 
 nockshire, Wales, 1621 ; d. 
 1695.— 2107. 
 
 Voltaire, Francois Marie 
 Aronet de. b. Paris, 
 France, 1694 ; d. Paris, 
 France, 1778. — 703, 811, 945, 
 1399, 1412, 1958, 2137. 
 
 Wallace, Lew. b. Brock- 
 ville, Ind., 1827; . . . .— 
 292, 595, 712, 2089. 
 
 Walpole, Sir Robert, b. 
 Houghton, Eng., 1676; d. 
 1745.— 553, 1763. 
 
 Walton, Izaak. b. Stafford, 
 
 Eng., 1593 ; d. Winchester, 
 Eng., 1683. — 44, 173, 375, 571, 
 973, 1078, 1094, 1170. 
 
 Warner, Charles Dudley. 
 b. Plainfield, Mass., 1829 ; 
 d. 1900. — 1243, 1261, 1747, 
 1905, 2037, 2090. 
 
 Washington, George. b. 
 Pope's Creek, near Bridge's 
 Creek, Va., 1732 ; d. Mount 
 Vernon, Va., 1799. — 653, 723, 
 821, 1050, 1371, 1384, 1577. 
 
 Wasson, David Atwood. 
 b. West Brooksville, Me., 
 1823 ; d. West Medford, 
 Mass., 1887. —524. 
 
 Watson, John ("Ian Mac- 
 laren"). b. Essex,Eng.,1850 ; 
 .... — 290, 693, 1242, 1469. 
 
 Webster, Daniel, b. Salis- 
 bury (now Franklin), N.H., 
 1782 ; d. Marshfield, Mass., 
 1852 ; 31, 32. 85, 143, 222, 273, 
 324, 445, 452, 537, 615, 661, 724, 
 892, 938, 1051. 1218, 1238, 1353, 
 1366, 1602, 1687, 1809, 1894, 
 1971, 1972. 
 
 Webster, John. b. England, 
 about 1570 ; d. 1638.— 577. 
 
 Webster, Noah. b. Hart- 
 ford, Conn., 1758 ; d. New 
 Haven, Conn., 1843. — 1017, 
 1459, 1955. 
 
 Weiss, John. b. Boston., 
 Mass., 1818 ; d. Boston, Mass., 
 1879. — 1023. 
 
 Wellington, Dnke of 
 (Arthur Wellesley). b. Dan- 
 gan Castle, Ireland, 1769 ; 
 d. Walmer Castle, Eng., 
 1852. —2028, 2029. 
 
 Wesley, John. b. Epworth, 
 Eng., 1730 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1791. — 233. 
 
 Whately, Kichard (Arch- 
 bishop), b. London, Eng., 
 1787; d. 1863. —2091. 
 
 Whewell, William, b. Eng- 
 land, 1795; d. 1866.— 86. 
 
 Whipple, Edwin Percy. 
 b. Gloucester, Mass., 1819 ; 
 d. Boston, Mass, 1886. — 99, 
 239, 948, 1709, 2108. 
 
INDEX OF AUTHORS. 
 
 323 
 
 Whitefield, George. b. 
 
 Gloucester, Eng., 1714; d. 
 
 Newbury port, Mass., 1770. — 
 
 1382, 1688. 
 Wliittier, John Greenleaf. 
 
 b. Haverhill, Mass., 1807 ; 
 
 d. 1892. — 1181. 
 Wilson, Thomas, b. Bur- 
 ton, Chester, Eng., 1663; d. 
 
 Sodor and Man, Great 
 
 Britain, 1755.— 2138. 
 Winter, AVilliam. b. 
 
 Gloucester, Mass., 1836 ; 
 
 . . . .—544. 
 
 Winthrop, Robert Charles. 
 b. Boston, Mass., 1809; d. 
 1894. — 244, 616, 1794. 
 
 Wolfe, Janies. b. Wester- 
 ham, Eng., 1726 ; d. Quebec, 
 Canada, 1759. — 357. 
 
 Wotton, Sir Henry. b. 
 Boughton Malherbe, Eng., 
 1568; d. Eaton, Eng., 1639.— 
 385, 763, 1535. 
 
 Wycherley, William. b. 
 Clive, Eng., about 1640; d. 
 London, Eng., 1715.— 109, 
 
 .2070 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS 
 
 The references designate the numbers of the quotations. 
 
 Abilities, limits of our, 1. 
 Ability, to conceal one's, 2. 
 to investigate systemati- 
 cally, 3. 
 A-borrowing goes a-sorrowing, 
 
 159. 
 Above, affections on things, 22. 
 Absence sweeteneth friend- 
 ship, 387. 
 Abundance, he shall have, 4. 
 Accounts, not in my power to 
 
 balance, 119. 
 Acquaintance, people for a vis- 
 iting, 39. 
 Action, a single lovely, 7. 
 
 Puritans gave the world, 8. 
 suit the, to the word, 377. 
 the first part of oratory, 9. 
 the outlet of emotion, 6. 
 Admiration from fastidious 
 critics, 12. 
 is an art, 13. 
 Adulation is not of more ser- 
 vice to, 573. 
 Adversary, oh that mine, had 
 
 written a book, 157. 
 Adversity hard upon a man, 14. 
 is the blessing of the New 
 
 Testament, 1500. 
 no education like, 15. 
 of our best friends, 16. 
 Advice that is wanted is, 18. 
 
 to a self-conceited man, 19. 
 Affectation necessary to the 
 
 mind, 20. 
 Affection, assaults of, 81. 
 
 Affection of young ladies is of 
 
 rapid growth, 748. 
 Affections are our life, 21. 
 
 on things above, 22. 
 Affliction may smile again, 
 
 1775- 
 Afflictions, other people's, 275. 
 Age a matter of feeling, 25. 
 best in four things, 23. 
 every, has its pleasures, 24. 
 is the worst malady, 1310. 
 of chivalry is gone, 216. 
 satirists describe the, 115. 
 smack of, in you, 26. 
 will kill me some day, 1310. 
 Agrippa, the dome of, 395. 
 Aimlessness, shiftlessness an- 
 other name for, 1697. 
 Almighty dollar, the, 394. 
 Alonso of Aragon, 23. 
 Ambition can creep, 27. 
 
 has its disappointments, 28. 
 more heroic than avarice, 
 29. 
 America has furnished a Wash- 
 ington, 31. 
 most memorable epoch in 
 the history of, 893. 
 American, if I were an, as I 
 am an Englishman, 66. 
 attempts to haul down the 
 
 flag, 30. 
 does not carry the, 1115. 
 I was born an, 32. 
 Americans, good, when they 
 die, go, 1346. 
 
 324 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 325 
 
 Amiableness the object of love, 
 
 33. 
 Amusement is study, 35. 
 Amusements keep people from 
 
 vice, 36. 
 Ancestors are very good kind 
 of folks, 39. 
 man who has, 37. 
 think of your, 40. 
 Anecdotes, authenticity of 
 
 leading, 100. 
 Anger, flame of, 42. 
 is a bow, 41. 
 of lovers, 43. 
 Angler, if he be an honest, 571. 
 Angling is somewhat like poe- 
 try, 44. 
 Animals, structure of, 86. 
 Annals are blank, 45. 
 Antipathy, the name of, 46. 
 Anxiety, covetousness is at- 
 tended with, 277. 
 unnecessary, 48. 
 Apologizing is rarely cured, 49. 
 Apology is egotism, 49. 
 Apparel, fashion wears out 
 
 more, 539. 
 Appearance, judge not accord- 
 ing to the, 51. 
 Appearances are deceitful, 50. 
 Appetite comes while eating, 
 52. 
 comes with eating, 426. 
 man given to, 53. 
 Applause of the crowd, 92. 
 
 the spur of noble minds, 54. 
 Apprehend, worse to, than to 
 
 suffer, 55. 
 Apprehension, how like a god 
 
 in, 56. 
 Arbiter of every one's fortune, 
 
 57. 
 Architecture a creation of in- 
 tellect, 59. 
 is the art which so disposes 
 and adorns, 60. 
 Argument, a knock-down, 61. 
 available with an east 
 
 wind, 906. 
 for a week, 964. 
 truth is the strongest, 63. 
 Arguments smelt of the lamp, 
 1011. 
 
 Aristocracy, a social life which 
 worships money is an, 65. 
 is the eminence of men, 64. 
 Armies swore terribly in, 1489. 
 Arms, I never would lay down 
 my, 66. 
 try everything before, 67. 
 Army with banners, 124. 
 Arrows of sarcasm, 1635. 
 Art, admiration is an, 13. 
 can never give rules, 68. 
 conscious utterance of 
 
 thought is, 70. 
 is an absolute mistress, 69. 
 is higher than nations, 71. 
 is the shadow of humanity, 
 
 72. 
 represents things truly, 74. 
 the beautiful the most use- 
 ful in, 73. 
 Artist paints his own nature, 
 75. 
 the greatest, 76. 
 Ascents from particular to 
 
 general, 77. 
 Ash pours out moans, 1783. 
 Ashamed, man who is not, of 
 
 himself, 1687. 
 Aspersion upon parts of 
 
 speech, 78. 
 Aspiration, love taking the 
 form of, 517. 
 sees one side, 79. 
 Ass, foes tell me I am an, 1681. 
 
 will carry his load, 829. 
 Assassination never changed 
 
 history, 80. 
 Assaults of affection, 81. 
 Assent a mental assertion, 82. 
 Assertion not a fact, 83. 
 Assiduity, marvellous, 84. 
 Association, objects attained 
 by, 85. 
 of men who will not quar- 
 rel, 1524. 
 Assumption of a final cause, 
 
 86. 
 Atheist, man declares himself 
 
 an, 88. 
 Athens, immortal influence of, 
 
 89. 
 Atomies, as easy to count as, 
 1110. 
 
326 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Attachment, an unrequited, 
 
 1978. 
 Attention, have so much to 
 
 spare, 91. 
 Attestation of a reasonable 
 
 man, 92. 
 Attitude, proper, in life, 93. 
 Attraction of my good parts, 
 
 94. 
 Attribution to God of love, 95. 
 Attrition, people trained by, 
 
 96. 
 Audacity the last refuge of 
 
 guilt, 97. 
 Augmentation of the Indies, 
 
 98. 
 Austerity beyond bounds of 
 
 humanity, 99. 
 Authenticity of leading anec- 
 dotes, 100. 
 Author, give the, his due, 1532. 
 portrayed in his works, 
 
 102. 
 Authors' lives not uniform, 104. 
 Authors, old, to read, 23. 
 Autumn comes like a warrior, 
 
 106. 
 Avarice, ambition more heroic 
 
 than, 29. 
 is a universal passion, 108. 
 Aversion, nothing is stronger 
 
 than, 109. 
 Awkwardness has no forgive- 
 ness, 110. 
 Azure, a little speck of, 111., 
 
 Babble of outlandish words, 
 112. 
 
 Bachelor, I would die a, 113. 
 
 Bachelorhood, keeping in, 114. 
 
 Backbiters assign their de- 
 scriptions, 115. 
 
 Backbone of conscience, 116. 
 
 Backslidings are many, 117. 
 
 Backwards, we go, 118. 
 
 Balances, cultivation has its, 
 292. 
 
 Ballads, permitted to make all 
 the, 121. 
 
 Balm in Gilead, 122. 
 
 Balsam the usuring senate 
 pours, 123. 
 
 Banners, army with, 124. 
 
 Barbarians, having no lan- 
 guage, 646. 
 Battle, a charming thing, 125. 
 a, lost, 2028. 
 a, won, 2028. 
 
 has cut many a Gordian 
 knot, 2024. 
 Battles, god of, on the side of 
 
 the strongest, 608. 
 Beans, succulent pork and, 
 
 796. 
 Bear-baiting, Puritans hated, 
 
 1420. 
 Beard, get rid of that, 127. 
 
 he that hath a, 126. 
 Beauty, always the possibility 
 of, 1451. 
 confers a benefit, 131. 
 confers happiness on all, 
 
 134. 
 in everything, 133. 
 is a welcome guest, 130. 
 is based on reason, 128. 
 of a plastic work, 1657. 
 source of, 132, 
 without expression, 129. 
 without grace, 129. 
 worship of, must be sim- 
 ple, 135. 
 Beech, the, shrieks, 1783. 
 Beeches, what are these, 1927. 
 Begging, gets more with, 742. 
 Beginning, a good, 136. 
 Behavior, laws of, yield, 137. 
 Belief consists in, 1962. 
 Beliefs become absolutely 
 
 fixed, 290. 
 Believe those whom we do not 
 
 know, 1937. 
 Benefactors, are they not 
 
 malefactors, 1142. 
 Benefit and an injury, distin- 
 guish between, 1683. 
 Benevolence is the habitation 
 of man, 140. 
 is the supreme ideal, 139. 
 Bible does not require peace 
 at any price, 1367. 
 is a book of special revela- 
 tion, 143. 
 is the family chronicle of 
 
 the Jews, 141. 
 would alone suffice, 142. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 327 
 
 Biography, no writing so popu- 
 lar as, 144. 
 Bird shall carry the voice, 14G. 
 Birds, catch old, with chaff, 
 193. 
 of this year, 145. 
 Birth, death borders upon 
 our, 280. 
 nobility of, abateth indus- 
 try, 1280. 
 Blessings under the shape of 
 
 pains, 147. 
 Blood of the martyrs, 148. 
 Blot in the heart, 149. 
 Blush in the face, 149. 
 Body, human, is a machine, 
 
 1129. 
 Bone, bred in the, 151. 
 Book, dainties bred in a, 1547. 
 no, is worth anything 
 
 which is, 1546. 
 oh that mine adversary 
 had written a, 157. 
 Books are legacies, 152. 
 
 are the best things, 156. 
 men that will make you, 
 
 155. 
 no time in life when, do 
 
 not influence, 153. 
 the most influential, works 
 
 of fiction, 564. 
 true university a collection 
 of, 154. 
 Bores, all men are, 158. 
 Borrowing, he that goes a, 159. 
 Boston help reads Dante, 796. 
 
 the evacuation of, 880. 
 Boy is the most unmanage- 
 able, 160. 
 Boys, what they should learn, 
 
 161. 
 Brain may devise laws, 162. 
 I > rains, poor, for drinking, 411. 
 Brass, as sounding, 207. 
 Bread and butter, won't quar- 
 rel with, 166. 
 Bread, cast thy, upon the 
 waters, 165. 
 is the staff of life, 167. 
 Breath, spare your, to cool, 
 
 168. 
 Bribery, facility is worse than, 
 507. 
 
 Bribery less shameful to be 
 
 overcome by arms than 
 
 by, 169. 
 Buffoonery is want of wit, 170. 
 Bullets, paper, of the brain, 
 
 841. 
 Bulwarks against anti-repub- 
 lican tendencies, 171. 
 Burdens, money and time the 
 
 heaviest, 172. 
 Burns, nothing but lionize 
 
 him, 1079. 
 Business, despatch is the soul 
 
 of, 344. 
 everybody's, is nobody's, 
 
 173. 
 might be everything, 262. 
 overtake his, 333. 
 unembarrassed by, 183. 
 Busybodies, tattlers also and, 
 
 174. 
 Butcher, lay on like a, 953. 
 Butter would not melt in her 
 
 mouth, 175. 
 
 Calamity, fortune not satisfied 
 with inflicting one, 177. 
 is a mighty leveller, 176. 
 
 Calculations, upset in Avar, 178. 
 
 Calendars, events the best, 1057. 
 
 Calumny, best answer to, 1384. 
 thou shalt not escape, 179. 
 
 Candidate, we choose the avail- 
 able, 107. 
 
 Cannon, debts are like, 323. 
 
 Cant of hypocrites, 180. 
 
 Cants Avhich are canted, 180. 
 
 Capacity of jelly, 83. 
 
 Capital, when labor quarrels 
 with, 1002. 
 
 Caprice, freedom is not, 611. 
 
 Captain, you have lost a good, 
 659. 
 
 Capulets, tomb of the, 729. 
 
 Cards, gambling with, 652. 
 
 Care an enemy to life, 184. 
 
 '11 kill a cat, hang sorrow, 
 
 182. 
 want of, does damage, 181. 
 
 Case, doth ease a grievous, 190. 
 
 Cases, circumstances alter, 227. 
 
 Caste, keep to his own, 185. 
 
 Castle, man's house is his, 186. 
 
328 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Cat, care' 11 kill a, 182. 
 Cause, final assumption of a, 
 86. 
 noble, doth ease, 190. 
 that wit is in other men, 
 188. 
 Causes which do not appear, 
 187. 
 why and wherefore, 189. 
 Cautious, the, seldom err, 191. 
 Censure is the tax a man pays, 
 
 192. 
 Chaff , catch old birds with, 193. 
 hid in two bushels of, 194. 
 Chance favors the prudent, 195. 
 wisdom commits itself to, 
 196. 
 Change is constant, 197. 
 is inevitable, 197. 
 itself is nothing, 198. 
 Chapel, devil would build a, 
 
 199. 
 Chapter, to the end of the, 200. 
 Character, fate is, 544. 
 
 founded on principle, 1480. 
 
 is a fact, 201. 
 
 is higher than intellect, 
 
 203. 
 is money, 1211. 
 leave my, behind me, 204. 
 must be kept bright, 202. 
 Chariot, a gay, gilt, 1008. 
 Charity, with, for all, 205. 
 
 shall cover sins, 206. 
 Charms, she works by, 311. 
 Chaste as ice, 179. 
 Chastity, ice of, is in them, 
 208. 
 of honor, 823. 
 Cheated, impossible for a man 
 
 to be, 209. 
 Cheerfulness fills the mind 
 with serenity, 1196. 
 throws sunlight, 211. 
 Chide, I will, no breather but 
 
 myself, 1685. 
 Child inherits its parents' 
 nature, 799. 
 making of character in a, 
 1228. 
 Childhood, a happy, is the 
 pledge of, 212. 
 has no forebodings, 213. 
 
 Children, no longer any, 215. 
 
 sweeten labors, 214. 
 Chivalry, age of, is gone, 216. 
 Choice between truth and 
 repose, 217. 
 where there is no, 218. 
 Christ the one great typical 
 man, 965. 
 the' people's friend, 967. 
 Christianity, first aspect in 
 which, 609. 
 immortality the discovery 
 
 of, 874. 
 is the bringing of God to 
 
 man, 220. 
 is the ideal form of man- 
 hood, 219. 
 teaches us to love our 
 
 neighbor, 1270. 
 the highest humanity, 835. 
 Christian, self-sacrifice of the, 
 
 1690. 
 Christians, all, agree in essen- 
 tial articles, 221. 
 should never avenge inju- 
 ries, 1993. 
 the accent of, 10. 
 whatever makes men good, 
 222. 
 Christmas, all ought to come 
 
 home at, 223. 
 Church, dangerous to be of no, 
 225. 
 seed of the, 148. 
 sincerely Catholic, 224. 
 where God built a, 199. 
 Churchyard, a little country, 
 
 729. 
 Circumlocution office was be- 
 forehand, 226. 
 Circumstances alter cases, 227. 
 do not make a man weak, 
 228. 
 Cities, if, were built by sound 
 
 of music, 229. 
 Civet, give me an ounce, 873. 
 Civilization is cheap, 116. 
 
 obeys the same law as the 
 
 ocean, 231. 
 the power of good women, 
 230. 
 Cleanliness is next to godli- 
 ness, 233 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 329 
 
 Cleanness of body was ever 
 
 esteemed, 232. 
 Cleverness is serviceable for 
 
 everything, 234. 
 Clothes, devil may wear good, 
 
 792. 
 f Clouds, spirits of the wise sit 
 
 in the, 235. 
 Cobwebs out of my eyes, 23G. 
 Coin, silver and gold not the 
 
 only, 237. 
 Color is the holiest gift, 238. 
 Comfort is the god of this 
 
 world, 239. 
 Common cannot be the heroic, 
 
 802. 
 Commons, faithful to their sys- 
 tem, 889. 
 Company of men with powers, 
 
 270. 
 to keep good, 241. 
 Comparisons are always odi- 
 ous, 242. 
 are odorous, 243. 
 Compass, no points of the, 244. 
 Compatriots, all men my, 245. 
 Compensation the mother of 
 
 progress, 1490. 
 Competency lives longer, 247. 
 Compliments in their place 
 
 only, 248. 
 Conceit is the most incurable 
 
 disease, 249. 
 wiser in his own, 250. 
 Conclusion, most lame and 
 
 impotent, 251. 
 Conclusions, victims of their 
 
 own, 774. 
 Condition which confronts us, 
 
 252. 
 Conference makes a ready 
 
 man, 253. 
 Confession, suicide is, 1S09. 
 Confidence is a plant of slow 
 
 growth, 255. 
 Conflict between opposing 
 
 forces, 256. 
 Conqueror, no man is such a, 
 
 as, 1G67. 
 Conscience, backbone of, 116. 
 is the most elastic mate- 
 rial. 257. 
 who has not a, 258. 
 
 Consecrate, wo cannot, this 
 
 ground, 259. 
 Consecration is going out in 
 
 the world, 250. 
 1 Consistency is the hobgoblin, 
 
 261. 
 thou art a jewel, 969. 
 Constancy, men of such, 262. 
 Constitution, no higher law 
 
 than the, 1029. 
 Contemporaries, receive from, 
 
 full homage, 971. 
 Contempt is a kind of gan- 
 grene, 264. 
 is never forgiven, 263. 
 Contentment consisteth not 
 
 in, 265. 
 Conversation is the music of 
 
 the mind, 266. 
 Co-operation, we are born for, 
 
 268. 
 Cost is the father of progress, 
 
 1490. 
 Counsel, who cannot give good, 
 
 271. 
 Counsellors, the multitude of, 
 
 1631. 
 Countenance, a merry heart 
 
 maketh a cheerful, 210. 
 Country, I tremble for my, 272. 
 our, our whole country, 
 
 and nothing but our 
 
 country, 273. 
 our, right or wrong, 1116. 
 Courage enough and to spare, 
 
 275. 
 is no virtue, 274. 
 Courtesy, time enough for, 276. 
 Courts, "a day in thy, 314. 
 Covetousness is attended with 
 
 solicitude, 277. 
 Coward, a, on instinct, 928. 
 he who fears to venture is 
 
 a, 278. 
 is worse than a cup of 
 
 sack, 279. 
 Cowardice, falsehood is, 522. 
 
 the reproach of, 46. 
 Cowards, a plague of all. 
 Cradle stands in the grave, 2S0. 
 Creation, had I been present 
 
 at the, 17. 
 is great, 281. 
 
330 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Creed, your opinions your, 282. 
 
 Crimes, poverty is the mother 
 of, 283. 
 
 Critic, a, must accept what is 
 best, 287. 
 
 Critics, admiration from fas- 
 tidious, 12. 
 are the men who have 
 failed, 286. 
 
 Criticism, cant of, 180. 
 every wind of, 285. 
 
 Crowd, applause of the, 92. 
 
 Cromwell, attachment of his 
 party, 90. 
 died at a time fortunate, 
 288. 
 
 Crop of injuries, reap a, 367. 
 
 Crows, better to fall amongst, 
 572. 
 
 Cruelty is the greatest of 
 crimes, 289. 
 
 Cucumbers, sunbeams out of, 
 291. 
 
 Culture, its origin not in curi- 
 osity, 293. 
 the foundation of, 294. 
 
 Cultivation has its balances, 
 292. 
 of the earth, 537. 
 
 Cup and the lip, 'twixt the, 
 1732. 
 
 Cured, what cannot be, 455. 
 
 Curiosity about trifles, 295. 
 
 Curtain, let down the, 296. 
 
 Custom, nothing is stronger 
 than, 298. 
 reconciles to every, 297. 
 what is done against, 299. 
 
 Cymbal, a tinkling, 207. 
 
 Cynic never sees a good qual- 
 ity, 300. 
 
 Dabbled a little in history, 301. 
 
 Dabbler in matters of science, 
 302. 
 
 Daggers, as you have spoke, 
 303. 
 
 Daintiness, learnt of the Flem- 
 ish, 304. 
 
 Damage, want of care does us 
 more, 181. 
 
 Dan to Beersheba, travel from, 
 1387. 
 
 Dandyism affects to look 
 
 down on, 305. 
 Danger for danger's sake, 306. 
 Dante, Boston help reads, 796. 
 Darkness, no, but ignorance, 
 309. 
 the pressure of, 307. 
 Avluch may be felt, 308. 
 Daubery, she works by such, 
 
 as this, 311. 
 Dawn, no solemnity so deep 
 
 as, 313. 
 Day in thy courts, 314. 
 
 unto day uttereth speech, 
 
 1279. 
 when the longest, 315. 
 Dead can boast no advantage, 
 318. 
 dialogues of the, 354. 
 Death, after, the doctor, 391. 
 borders upon our birth, 
 
 280. 
 is the ugh 7 fact, 319. 
 look on it with favor, 316. 
 love is strong as, 959. 
 men fear, 317. 
 puts an end to rivalship, 
 318. 
 Debasement, a life of gradual, 
 
 320. 
 Debate, the Rupert of, 321. 
 Debt, national, a national 
 
 blessing, 324. 
 Debts are like small shot, 323. 
 
 industry pays, 322. 
 Deceit, suspicion that, has 
 
 begotten, 326. 
 Decision is based on knowl- 
 edge, 328. 
 power of uncontrollable, 
 327. 
 Deed, no noise over a good, 
 329. 
 the good will for the, 330. 
 Defence, millions for, 1930. 
 Defenders, cheering her, 312. 
 Deformity which the beggars 
 
 mimicked, 331. 
 Degree, men of low, 332. 
 Delight, any goblet of. 334. 
 
 excessive feelings of, 335. 
 Deluge, after me the, 336. 
 Democracy, a, in Sparta, 338. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 331 
 
 Democracy is the healthful 
 
 life-blood, 337. 
 Demosthenes concerning ora- 
 tory, 9. 
 Dependence on generosity of 
 
 others, 320. 
 Derling, an old man's, 310. 
 Desert shall rejoice, 340. 
 Despair increaseth debts, 322. 
 
 no, so absolute as, 343. 
 Despatch is the soul of busi- 
 ness, 344. 
 Despotism sits nowhere se- 
 cure, 345. 
 Destinies, according to fates 
 
 and, 347. 
 Destiny, wedding is, 346. 
 
 we are the sport of, 348. 
 Devil drives, needs must when 
 the, 351. 
 know him by his horns, 352. 
 may be respectable, 792. 
 takes a less hateful shape, 
 
 350. 
 will not have me damned, 
 
 793. 
 would build a chapel, 199. 
 Devotional, some persons are 
 
 so, 353. 
 Dialogues of the unborn, 354. 
 Dice, gambling with, 652. 
 Dictionaries are like watches, 
 
 355. 
 Difference, distinction with- 
 out a, 388. 
 wear your rue with a, 356. 
 Difficulties, a choice of, 357. 
 Difficulty, do well to make no, 
 
 218. 
 Dignity of manners is neces- 
 sary, 359. 
 to be observed, 358. 
 Diligence increaseth fruit of 
 toil, 362. 
 the mother of good fortune, 
 
 360. 
 the mother of good luck, 
 361. 
 Dinner, my wife had got ready 
 a, 364. 
 of herbs where love is. 363. 
 Diplomacy is an art, 365. 
 
 is no shoemaker's stool, 365. 
 
 Disappointment is the salt of 
 life, 366. 
 when you have sown bene- 
 fits, 367. 
 Disciplinarian, most decisive, 
 
 in the army, 368. 
 Discipline must be maintained, 
 369. 
 the sum of the Benedictine, 
 1210. 
 Discontent is want of self-reli- 
 ance, 370. 
 Discouragement resembles 
 
 pride, 372. 
 Discourse and good company 
 the sinews of virtue, 375. 
 good in, to vary, 373. 
 like a rich Persian carpet, 
 374. 
 Discoveries, great, are made 
 
 by, 376. 
 Discretion, best part of valor, 
 1982. 
 let, be your tutor, 377. 
 the better part of valor, 
 378. 
 Disease of not listening, 1140. 
 remedy is worse than the, 
 379. 
 Diseases crucify the soul, 380. 
 Disinterestedness, difficult to 
 get men to believe in, 
 381. 
 is the -divine notion of per- 
 fection, 139. 
 Dispatch is the soul of busi- 
 ness, 1188. 
 Disposition never well known, 
 
 384. 
 Distance endears friendship, 
 
 387. 
 Distinction without a differ- 
 ence, 388. 
 Ditchers, no ancient gentle- 
 men but, 654. 
 Divinity in odd numbers, 390. 
 Doctor, after death, the, 391. 
 
 takes the fee, 1397. 
 Dog, farmer's, bark at a beg- 
 gar, 1308. 
 is thy servant a. 302. 
 living, better than a dead 
 lion, 1080. 
 
332 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Dog's, a, obeyed in office, 1308, 
 Dogmatist, the most audacious, 
 
 393. 
 Dollar, the almighty, 394. 
 Dolphin-chamber, sitting in 
 
 my, 569. 
 Dome of Agrippa, 395. 
 Domicil, let him have no, 396. 
 Dominate, no human being 
 
 can, 397. 
 Doomsday, never out of date 
 
 until, 398. 
 Doubt, when in, win the 
 
 trick, 399. 
 Dowry, all nature for his, 400. 
 Dragon amongst all the ladies, 
 
 401. 
 Drama, manhood of poetry is 
 
 the, 402. 
 Dream, I have had a, 404. 
 
 itself is but a shadow, 403. 
 Dreg, what too curious, 405. 
 Dress a principal part of them- 
 selves, 406, 
 whose, no one observes, 
 
 407. 
 Drinking not to be blamed, 
 
 410. 
 poor brains for, 411. 
 Driving of Jehu, 412. 
 Drudgism, Dandyism looks 
 
 down on, 305. 
 Drunkenness identical with 
 
 ruin, 413. 
 is voluntary madness, 414. 
 Dulness, cause of. in others, 
 
 415. 
 Dust thou art, 416. 
 Duty, do our, as we under- 
 stand it, 1615. 
 happiness the flower of, 
 
 764. 
 sense of, pursues us, 419. 
 the command of heaven, 
 
 420. 
 the condition of existence, 
 
 418. 
 
 Earnest, a man in, finds means, 
 
 -122. 
 Earth loveth the shower, 478. 
 tickle her with a hoe, 423. 
 Eat to live, 425. 
 
 Eating, appetite comes with, 
 
 426. 
 Ebony, cut in, 428. 
 Eccentricity has always 
 
 abounded, 429. 
 Echo is the voice of a reflec- 
 tion, 431. 
 Economy comes too late, 434. 
 creative, is the fuel of 
 magnificence, 433> 
 Edifices, great, the Avork of 
 
 ages, 58. 
 Education, a complete and 
 generous, 438. 
 is an ornament, 436. 
 is to an human soul, 435, 
 should be broad, 437. 
 Egotism in print not so insuf- 
 ferable, 440. 
 wrong side out, 49. 
 Egotists, men are, 441. 
 
 pest of society is, 439. 
 Elegance of feinale friend- 
 ship, 442. 
 Elm sends forth a groan, 1783. 
 Eloquence does not consist in 
 speech, 445. 
 shows the power of man, 
 
 443. 
 was to be gagged, 647. 
 we cannot get, 444. 
 Emancipation is but half com- 
 pleted, 616. 
 Emergencies, presence of mind 
 
 in, 446. 
 Emotion, action the outlet of, 
 6. 
 is the element of madness, 
 
 448. 
 sentiment is intellectual., 
 ized, 447. 
 Empire, the, is peace, 449. 
 Employment and hardships 
 prevent melancholy, 450. 
 gives health, 452. 
 the hand of little, 451. 
 End, one must consider the, 
 
 453. 
 Enemies, secret historv of our. 
 
 458. 
 Enemy is within the gates, 456. 
 ruav become vour friend, 
 457. 
 
nSTDEX TO QUUTATIONS. 
 
 333 
 
 Enemy to life, care is an, 184. 
 Energy, genius is an affair of, 
 667. 
 life is a species of, 459. 
 England expects every man to 
 do his duty, 461. 
 not the workshop of the 
 
 world, 460. 
 three good men unhanged 
 in, 549. 
 Englishman, as I am an, 66. 
 Enoch's name, book bearing, 
 
 505. 
 Enough is as good as a feast, 
 ' 462. 
 is equal to a feast, 558. 
 Enterprise, heroic, is gone, 
 
 463. 
 Enthusiasm begets enthu- 
 siasm, 465. 
 is the height of man, 464. 
 Envy feels not its own happi- 
 ness, 467. 
 hatred and malice, 466. 
 Epitaph, better have a bad, 
 469. 
 let no man write my, 468. 
 Equal, all men are created, 470. 
 Equator, speak disrespectfully 
 
 of the, 386. 
 Equity is a roguish thing, 471. 
 Equivocation will undo us, 472. 
 Error, all men are liable to, 
 474. 
 is to be pitied, 473. 
 Esteem, nothing so proves, as 
 
 imitation, 475. 
 Eternity looks grander and 
 kinder, 476. 
 restores all, 477. 
 Eulogv, monuments and, be- 
 long to the dead. 1218. 
 Events creep or fly, 479. 
 the best calendars, 1057. 
 we are not to lead, 480. 
 Evil, be not overcome by, 709. 
 for evil, recompense to no 
 
 man, 483. 
 implanted in man by na- 
 ture, 481. 
 in every human heart, 482. 
 Evolution a change to a more 
 coherent form, 484. 
 
 Example acquires authority 
 when, 486. 
 is a school of mankind, 485. 
 
 Exercise is labor, 489. 
 
 Exile is terrible, 490. 
 
 Existence, duty the condition 
 of, 418. 
 
 Expediency, party honesty is 
 party, 492. 
 
 Experience, unless, be a jewel, 
 496. 
 keeps a dear school, 493. 
 makes us wise, 494. 
 set with the sharp mor- 
 dant of, 495. 
 
 Experiment, full tide of suc- 
 cessful, 497. 
 
 Explanations which survive, 
 it is not, 498. 
 
 Expression, beauty without, 
 129. 
 
 Externals, does not long after, 
 93. 
 
 Eyes bright, with many tears, 
 499. 
 cobwebs out of my, 236. 
 
 Fable pleases most univer- 
 sally, 502. 
 
 Fabric of man, many pieces in 
 this, 503. 
 
 Fabrication of a new govern- 
 ment, 504. 
 
 Face, God has given you one, 
 506. 
 he does smile his, 98. 
 
 Facility is worse than bribery, 
 507. 
 
 Fact, character is a, 201. 
 
 Faction, a spirit of, 508. 
 
 Factions are carried too high, 
 371. 
 
 Factors in the trading world, 
 509. 
 
 Facts, a world of, 511. 
 
 are stubborn things, 510. 
 
 Faculty that forms thy judg- 
 ments, 512. 
 
 Fagots, there are, 513. 
 
 Fail at all is to fail utterly, 
 514. 
 
 Fairness, with, how can I go 
 back, 516. 
 
334 DICTIONARY OF PEOSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Faith, he that has lost his, 389. 
 hope is the parent of, 825. 
 is love, 517. 
 
 is the force of life, 521. 
 is the substance of things 
 
 hoped for, 519. 
 reason for the. 520. 
 that right makes might, 
 
 421. 
 that wears well, 495. 
 would lift us absolutely, 
 518. 
 Falsehood imperils by its dis- 
 covery, 524. 
 is cowardice, 522. 
 is for a season. 523. 
 those who thrive by, 1S54. 
 Fame is the idol to. 525. 
 
 no sure test of merit, 526. 
 the temple of, 527. 
 those who despise, 528. 
 Families amongst the gentrv, 
 679. 
 there are but two, in the 
 world, 530. 
 Family, meanness of thy, 38. 
 Famine ends famine. 531. 
 Fancy. Burke's imperial, 532. 
 Fantasy, imagination is mere, 
 
 534. 
 Farce, the. is done. 296. 
 Farewell, the happv never say, 
 
 535. 
 Farm, each man reaps on his 
 
 own. 536. 
 Fascination, the gift of, 538. 
 Fashion is a potency in art, 
 540. 
 wears out more apnarel, 
 539. 
 Fat. fair and forty. 54S. 
 Fatalism says that something 
 
 must be, 541. 
 Fate, educated to bear his, 543. 
 intellect annuls, 936. 
 is character, 544. 
 is unpenetrated causes. 542. 
 Father, wise son maketh a 
 glad. 545. 
 wise, that knows his own 
 child. 546. 
 Faults are such that one loves 
 him, 551. 
 
 Faults, greatest of, to be con- 
 scious of none, 550. 
 Favors, a lively sense of future, 
 553. 
 he only confers, generous- 
 ly^^. 
 Fawns, frolicsome as the. 63(d. 
 Fear in love, no, 557. 
 
 natural, in children. 554. 
 springs from ignorance, 
 556. 
 Feast, enough is as good as a, 
 462. 
 enough is equal to a, 558. 
 master of the. 830. 
 of languages. 1533. 
 small cheer and great wel- 
 come make a. 559. 
 Features are so fashioned that, 
 
 560. 
 Feeling, age a matter of. 25. 
 comes before reflection, 
 561. 
 Fellow that hath had losses, 
 
 761. 
 Fellow-laborers in the same 
 
 vineyard. 797. 
 Fellows, best king of good, 
 
 562. 
 Fellowship is heaven. 563. 
 
 lack of. is hell, 563. 
 Fiction, condemn it as an im- 
 probable, 885. 
 Fields, babbled of green, 565- 
 Finery, sake of. 566. 
 Fire, let him have no, 396. 
 tangible of all visible mya 
 teries. 567. 
 Firmament showeth his handi- 
 work, 570. 
 Flag, to haul down the Amer- 
 ican. 30. 
 Flanders, armies swore terri- 
 bly in. 1489. 
 Flatter, easier to. than to 
 
 praise, 575. 
 Flatterers eat us alive. 572. 
 Flattery corrupts both receiver 
 and giver, 573. 
 imitation is the sincerest, 
 574, 
 Flemish daintiness and soft- 
 ness, 304. 
 
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 :"_- aj_t_ . :' y \- \- r is a. 
 
 : culled, 
 are tike sweetest things, 
 
 of life are bait visionary, 
 
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 who lives without, 5&L 
 FooL. answer a, according to 
 
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 Fortitu< : where true, 
 
 a 
 
 Las often been 
 blamed, 603. 
 makes him a fool, 601. 
 
 \rith inflicting 
 one calamity 
 
 Port ■ i n g , wL 
 
 brought to pass under, 
 604 
 Foundations of knowl- _ 
 
 were laid, 605. 
 Foun" use the, I " 
 
 Frailty of a man, 606. 
 Fraud, notorious by base, 610. 
 Freedom, a new birth of, 614. 
 is a new religion, 612. 
 is not caprice. 611. 
 man's will. I )5. 
 
 to the free, 613. 
 I 1 7 7 men with votes in their 
 
 hands, 616. 
 Refieftman, a, must be always 
 
 _ 'AT. 
 Fretf ulness of temper. 
 Friend, a new, is as new wine, 
 M 
 be slow in choosing a. - 
 
 -.Tee- 
 able, 6S ~ 
 does not hli one part of the 
 
 - - 22 
 forsake not an old, 691 
 if he have not a, 620. 
 in need, 625. 
 is another self, 619. 
 might become an enemv, 
 
 ">: 
 
 nofit I can do for mv, 
 
 - 
 
 .Tersity of our, 16. 
 - lis. 607. 
 
 - ■ -- - 
 
 pla two, first met, 
 
 a 
 
 •.nt that loves 
 the - 
 
 - und health. 630. 
 .lorn lasting, 633. 
 
 - 
 
336 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Friendship, only is genuine, 
 
 when, 632. 
 Friskiness of one is a cause of, 
 
 635. 
 Frolicsome as the young 
 
 fawns, 636. 
 Fullness and wantonness , 
 
 smart for our, 638. 
 Fun, the most English of quali- 
 ties, 639. 
 Fussiness, a fair proportion to 
 
 her, 640. 
 Futility of an easy reliance, 
 
 641. 
 Future is lighted for us, 643. 
 Futurity is the great concern 
 
 of mankind, 642. 
 
 Gab, gift of, 645. 
 
 Gabbling, no language, but a, 
 
 646. 
 Gagged, eloquence was to be, 
 
 647. 
 Gain, to die is, 648. 
 Gallantry of private soldiers, 
 
 650. 
 G a 1 1 o w s-maker ; for that 
 
 frame, 651. 
 Gambling with cards, 652. 
 Game, the rigor of the, 2039. 
 Gangrene, contempt is a kind 
 
 of, 264. 
 Garden, God Almighty first 
 
 planted a, 655. 
 Gardeners, no ancient gentle- 
 men but, 654. 
 Garrick's death eclipsed the 
 
 gayety, 658. 
 Gatherer, a, and disposer of 
 
 other men's stuff, 1535. 
 Gathering, I '11 make a, for 
 
 him, 657. 
 Gayety of nations eclipsed, 668. 
 General, make him an ill, 659. 
 Generalities, glittering and 
 
 sounding, 660. 
 Generation, come down to us 
 
 from a former, 661. 
 Generosity cannot remain in- 
 active, 665. 
 is a duty, 662. 
 
 is the flower of justice, 663. 
 is the vanity of giving, 664. 
 
 Genius, impossible for talent 
 is the mark of, 666. 
 inspires this thirst for 
 
 fame, 671. 
 is an affair of energy, 667. 
 is feeble which cannot hold 
 
 its own, 669. 
 measure, by quality. 670. 
 studies the causal thought, 
 668. 
 Gentility, a constant recog- 
 nition of, 672. 
 establish their claims to, 
 673. 
 Gentleman born, master par- 
 son, 676. 
 is a Christian product. '374. 
 learn from his Bible to be 
 a more thorough. 675. 
 Gentlemen were the hist in 
 
 Europe, 1009. 
 Gentleness, possess firmness 
 who can possess true, 677. 
 Gentlewoman, if this had not 
 
 been a, 678. 
 Gentry, if thou meetest one of 
 these small, 680. 
 or the lower nobility. 679. 
 Genuineness, the one' thing 
 
 needful, 681. 
 Gesture, language of, is God's 
 
 language, 682. 
 Gettings this year have been 
 
 less than niy last, 683. 
 Ghosts the first guess of the 
 savage, 6S5. 
 true love is like, 686. 
 Giants in the earth, 687. 
 Gibberish, speaks, 688. 
 Gibbets, unloaded all the, 682. 
 Gift, onlv, is a portion of thv- 
 
 ' self, 690. 
 Gifts, color is the holiest of, 
 
 238. 
 Gilead, no balm in, 122. 
 Girl, vou cannot hammer a, 
 
 692, 
 Giving is a training for one's 
 
 brain, 693. 
 Gladness of heart is the life of 
 
 man, 694. 
 Glorv, chief, of every people, 
 "103. 
 
IXDEX TO QUOTATION"*. 
 
 ♦-> o-» 
 OOt 
 
 Glory, lies in noble deeds, 695. 
 no path of flowers leads to, 
 696. 
 
 nothing so expensive as, 
 697. 
 Goblet of delight, 334. 
 God Almighty cannot prevent 
 me from winning, 87. 
 Almighty first planted a 
 
 garden, 655. 
 alone is exempt from want, 
 
 701. 
 alone is great. 700. 
 deceiveth thee not, 690. 
 gives every bird its food, 
 
 1676. 
 gives in over measure. 698. 
 helps them that help, 1675. 
 if there were no, 703. 
 in apprehension how like 
 
 a. 56. 
 is a household God. 702. 
 may forgive sins, 110. 
 security of a. 606. 
 will put up with a, 860. 
 Godliness, cleanliness is next 
 
 to. 233. 
 God's relative personality is 
 
 shadowed forth. 95. 
 Gods, whom the, favor, dies 
 
 young, 704. 
 
 Gold, a good heart's worth, 783 
 
 enough, give him, 703. 
 
 not the only coin. 237. 
 
 Goldsmith, whatever he wrote, 
 
 706. 
 Good is always the road to 
 
 what is true, 707. 
 Good-breeding the result of 
 
 good sense. 710 
 Good-fellowship, nor, in thee. 
 
 711. 
 Good-fortune, moment of ex- 
 cessive. 712. 
 Good-nature a fruit of true 
 
 Christianity, 713. 
 Goodness does not more cer- 
 tainly make men happy, 
 716. 
 lies in abstaining not mere- 
 ly from injustice, 714. 
 must have some edge to it, 
 715. 
 
 Good-will of the meanest per- 
 son, 1752 
 Gossip of society would perish, 
 
 717. 
 Government, happiness the 
 end of all. 723. 
 is a contrivance of human 
 
 wisdom, 7 JO. 
 not a government of laws, 
 
 is a despotism, 724. 
 of the people. 614. 
 the essence of a free, con- 
 sists in, 719. 
 the freedom of a, 722. 
 are party governments, 
 72i. 
 Grace, beauty without. 129. 
 seasoned 'with salt. 725. 
 Grandeur has a heavy tax, 726. 
 Gratitude is a soil. 727. 
 
 is in the flow of spirits, 728. 
 Grave, as secret as the, 730. 
 cradle stands in the, 280. 
 jealousy is cruel as the, 
 959. 
 Grave-makers, no ancient gen- 
 tlemen but, 654. 
 Gravity and temperance of the 
 Mussulman, 734. 
 is the ballast of the soul, 
 
 731. 
 out of his bed at midnight, 
 
 732. 
 to play at cherry pit. 733. 
 Great men are among the best 
 gifts. 740. 
 men are the summits of 
 
 ranges. 739. 
 some are born, 741. 
 truly, man. virtuous. 738 
 Greatness is a spiritual condi- 
 tion, 73~>. 
 Nothing is more simple than, 
 
 737. 
 Greed which has overstepped 
 
 limits, 743. 
 Grief, every one can master a, 
 746. 
 flood of, decreaseth, 744. 
 is the agony of an instant, 
 
 745. 
 those who have known, 
 1629. 
 
338 DICTIONARY OF PEOSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Grotesque, there is .: false. 747. 
 Grow, we shall continue to. 
 
 1974. 
 Guardian, men do not need 
 
 any, 749. 
 Guest, the tirst dava man is a, 
 
 750. 
 Guillotine was to travel in. 951 
 Guilt, audacity :ke last refuse 
 
 of, 97. 
 distorts faculties oi the 
 
 Immaninind. 751. 
 is crooked, intricate. 915. 
 is ever at a loss. 752. 
 Gypsies, serve your best 
 
 thoughts as. do stolen 
 
 children, 753. 
 Habit is a second nature. 75*. 
 the approximation of ani- 
 mal system, 75E , 
 Hades, who hath returned 
 
 from. 757. 
 Hair. one. of a woman. 755. 
 Hand, Arabia will not sweeten 
 
 this littie. 760. 
 
 >rget her running 961. 
 that has none::: in it. 759. 
 Handsome, everything about 
 
 Inn:. 761. 
 Hanging is destiny, 346. 
 is the word, sii . 762. 
 was the worst use. 763. 
 Happiest, he is. of whom the 
 
 world says least live 
 Happiness, bitter to look into, 
 
 is rather a negative than, 
 
 7 66. 
 lies in health. 765. 
 man the artificer of his 
 
 own. 768. 
 the flower of duty. 764. 
 Harmonv. w:rietv the condi- 
 
 He 
 
 ads_._i 
 
 wo, better than one. 
 
 He 
 
 
 est physic to pre- 
 
 
 hapi 
 
 iuc?s lies in. 765. 
 
 
 w - :. I 
 
 th is. 750. 
 
 He 
 
 ;-.rke: 
 
 .ers sel.i:ua hear ::::. 
 
 
 
 x^_ -.! j. -'.^1.-. ^ 
 
 JaC 
 
 art is 
 
 -—^ ;_ : '", • - -- T ' 
 
 
 v_- ■- y 
 
 s levisetn nis wi - . • . * >_ . 
 
 
 men 
 
 maketh a cheerful 
 
 .mm:::.:: :e.210. 
 
 
 ~ b 
 
 nks nis nnrne speaks. 
 
 He 
 
 Lla 
 
 art's. 
 
 i good, worth gold. 
 
 He 
 
 :.:"_rL 
 
 ! what, art a. 784. 
 
 H : aven 
 
 should be kept heav- 
 
 
 rn 
 
 lv. 7S6. 
 
 TTp 
 
 will 
 
 - E-rited bv. 755, 
 
 . sh,:VP nil ">- 
 
 Hectoring must be looked 
 
 upon, 788. 
 Helgrb:_: as well biss a. 127. 
 Heels, . >me :.: my, 75 :. 
 
 let your uncle kick his, 789. 
 Heirl; :m. ever left such an. 
 
 791. 
 Hell is both sides of the tomb, 
 
 792. 
 Hell's mouth is full of good 
 
 wishes, -1 
 H elm . sleeve in his . 795. 
 11 e B ton, reads Dante, 796. 
 Herbs linn m of, 363. 
 Hermit, autumn comes not 
 
 Haste ruir: waste. 771. 
 
 Hatred is selr-pmnishment. 772. 
 Haughrr are alwavs :br vic- 
 tims. 774. 
 Hav. make, while the sunne 
 
 Head 
 
 ■a m 
 
 copy, 3ol. 
 
 Hei t man is a, 801. 
 
 Hemes. : ~ - m, exist 
 
 Heroic cannot be the common, 
 
 502. 
 Heroism, brave man inspires 
 others :. . 164. 
 characteristic of genuine, 
 502/ 
 Hero-worship is healthy, 805. 
 s: riety is founded on. 804. 
 >I n is another man's 
 
 doxv,"l334. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 339 
 
 Historian, to be a really good, 
 
 807. 
 Historians ought to be precise, 
 
 806. 
 History a picture of crimes, 
 811. 
 earliest expression of 
 
 thought, 808. 
 of world not changed, 80. 
 owes its excellence to the 
 
 writer's manner, 810. 
 the herald of antiquity, 
 
 809. 
 the witness of the times, 
 809. 
 Hobgoblin, consistency is the, 
 
 261. 
 Holidays, life without, is like, 
 812. 
 revelations which, bring, 
 813. 
 Home, man who has no, 815. 
 the nursery of the Infinite, 
 814. 
 Homer himself must beg, 120. 
 poets steal from, 816. 
 sometimes nods, 817. 
 Honest man able to speak for 
 himself, 819. 
 man, character of an, 821. 
 Honesty dwells like a miser, 
 1373. 
 no legacy so rich as, 820. 
 Honor hath three things in it, 
 822. 
 hiding mine, in my neces- 
 sity, 417. 
 that chastity of, 823. 
 Honors mark how high we 
 
 stand, 824. 
 Hope is the parent of faith, 
 825. 
 nothing is more universal 
 
 than, 828. 
 spreads wings on unfath- 
 omable seas, 826. 
 Hopes, he that lives upon, S27. 
 Horse, ride not a free, to 
 death, 829. 
 want of a, the rider was 
 lost, 1269. 
 House built on another man's 
 ground, 833. 
 
 House, man's, is his castle, 
 
 186. 
 Houses are built to live in, 831. 
 are like human beings, 832. 
 Hutting must be looked upon, 
 
 788. 
 Human nature capable of 
 
 great things, 836. 
 Humanity, beyond the bounds 
 of, 99. 
 Christianity the highest, 
 
 835. 
 do more than is allowed 
 
 to, 488. 
 in this ship of, 834. 
 is constitutionally lazy, 
 1036. 
 Humble-pie in life's feast, 
 
 837. 
 Humility, love is the parent of, 
 838. 
 the altar upon which God, 
 839. 
 Humor consistent with pathos, 
 840. 
 is the mistress of tears, 842. 
 Hypocrisy the homage vice 
 
 pays, 844. 
 Hypocrites, cant of, 180. 
 
 Ice, chaste as, 179. 
 
 of chastity is in them, 208. 
 Iconoclasm was a primitive 
 Rationalism. 847. 
 whether manifested in re- 
 ligion or, S46. 
 Idea, persistence of an all-ab- 
 sorbing, 851. 
 that fellow seems to pos- 
 sess but one, 852. 
 Idealism, essence of the Kan- 
 tian, 854. 
 Ideals are our better selves, 
 855. 
 are the world's masters, 
 856. 
 Ideas, greatest number of the 
 greatest, 76. 
 higher grade of develop- 
 ment of, 850. 
 in the head set hands, 848. 
 must work through brains, 
 849. 
 
340 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ideas, often flash across our 
 
 minds, 853. 
 Idleness and pride tax. S53. 
 Idols, a man shall east his, 
 
 S59. 
 Ignorance breeds rashness, 
 866. 
 caused by sloth. 863. 
 fear springs from. 556. 
 gives a range of probabili- 
 ties, 862. 
 never settles a question. 
 
 861. 
 no darkness but. S65. 
 of the law excuses no, 864. 
 Ill-humor arises from con- 
 sciousness of want of 
 merit. 867. 
 Illumination is writing made 
 
 lovely, 863. 
 Illusion about women. 869. 
 Image, making man over in 
 
 his. 1557. 
 Imagination, a man should 
 have, 872. 
 is mere fantasy. 534. 
 on human, events produce, 
 
 871. 
 the secret and marrow of 
 
 civilization, 870. 
 to sweeten my. 873. 
 Imitation is the sincerest flat- 
 tery. 574. 
 Immortality, desire for, not 
 selfish. 875. 
 the discovery of Christi- 
 anity. 874. 
 work for, then wait, 876. 
 Impatient, we get. 877. 
 Imperfections divinely ap- 
 pointed. 878. 
 Imperialism. George Washing- 
 ton drove. 880. 
 under the pretext of, 879. 
 Impertinences, nothing more 
 easv than to represent 
 as, 881. 
 Impossibility, a metaphysical, 
 
 882. 
 Imposture weakens confi- 
 dence. 883. 
 Impression, the first, SS4. 
 Improvement is nature, 886. 
 
 Impudence nearly allied to 
 fortitude, 888. 
 
 Impulse, men have wandering, 
 802. 
 
 Inactivitv. a wise and master- 
 ly, 889. 
 
 Inclination gets the better of 
 judgment, 891. 
 
 Index, owe the most to a good, 
 894. 
 so essential to everv book, 
 
 895. 
 value of an accurate, 896. 
 
 India, where one must not 
 take things too seri- 
 ously, 897. 
 
 Indies, augmentation of the, 
 98. 
 
 Indifference, nothing that con- 
 cerns a man a matter of, 
 898. 
 
 Individuality everywhere to 
 be respected, 899. 
 
 Indolence, an excuse for, 901. 
 
 Industrial problem is solved, 
 1692. 
 
 Industry, end of all, the at- 
 tainment of happiness, 
 903. 
 honorable, travels with en- 
 joyment, 904. 
 makes all things easy, 902. 
 pays debts, 322. 
 
 Inevitable, arguing with the, 
 62. 
 
 Infallibility alwavs paralvzes. 
 907. 
 
 Infamv is not too deep for, 
 908. 
 
 Infection spreadeth upon, 
 1835. 
 
 Infidel, he is worse than an, 
 910. 
 
 Infidelity, conscience comes in 
 to correct our, 909. 
 
 Infinite, home the nurserv of 
 the, 814. 
 
 Infinitv of God is not mysteri- 
 ous, 911. 
 
 Influence of Athens, 89. 
 
 to be measured by its kind, 
 912. 
 
 Ingratitude is monstrous, 914. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 341 
 
 Injustice now become a state 
 
 proverb, 915. 
 Ink, gall enough in thy, 916. 
 Inn, happiness produced by a 
 
 good, 922. 
 take mine ease in my, 424. 
 Inne, ease in mine, 921. 
 Innkeeper, though I am an, 
 
 917. 
 Innocence is plain, direct, and, 
 
 918. 
 the greatest prerogative of, 
 
 919. 
 Innovations the births of 
 
 time, 920. 
 Insanity, fancy over reason is, 
 
 923. 
 Insight, moment's,worth a, 924. 
 Insincerity must make whole 
 
 life dramatic, 925. 
 Inspiration, answering, 926. 
 Instinct, a coward on, 928. 
 
 is intelligence incapable, 
 
 929. 
 Instincts, our Hellenizing, 794. 
 Institution is the lengthened 
 
 shadow of, 930. 
 Institutions, we are bullied by, 
 
 931. 
 Insult, irony is an, 948. 
 Insults, the way to procure,933. 
 Integrity without knowledge 
 
 is weak, 934. 
 Intellect annuls fate, 936. 
 
 character is higher than, 
 
 203. 
 exists in its products, 935. 
 Intelligence, every breeze 
 
 wafts, 938. 
 to educate, is to enlarge, 
 
 937. 
 Intent, their, everywhere, 262. 
 Interest speaks all sorts of 
 
 tongues, 382. 
 Intimate, worst way of being, 
 
 940. 
 Invention, the first in an, 942. 
 without, a painter is, 943. 
 Inventor, every man should be 
 
 an, 944. 
 knows how to borrow, 944. 
 Iron, strike when the, is hot, 
 
 946. 
 
 Iron, rule with a rod of, 947. 
 Irony is an insult, 948. 
 Irreverence, we treat God 
 
 with, 949. 
 Itch of disputing, the, 385. 
 Iteration likely to generate 
 
 heat, 950. 
 Ivory, as if done in, 428. 
 
 Jabbered in several languages, 
 
 952. 
 Jackanapes, sit like a, 953. 
 Jacobins, tribunals coimposed 
 
 of, 954. 
 Jangle, finished our daily, 956. 
 Jar, a manifest show of, 957. 
 Jealousy, born with love, does 
 
 not die with it, 958. 
 Jealousy is cruel as the grave, 
 
 959. 
 magnifier of trifles, 960. 
 Jeff erson Avas a dabbler in sci- 
 ence, 302. 
 Jehu, the son of Ninishi, the 
 
 driving of, 412. 
 Jelly, capacity of, 83. 
 Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 
 
 961. 
 Jeshurun waxed fat, 547. 
 Jest, a good, forever, 964. 
 
 loses its point, 963. 
 Jests that give pain are no 
 
 jests, 962. 
 Jewel, consistency, thou art a, 
 
 969. 
 unless experience be a, 496. 
 Jewels, nature did never put 
 
 her precious, 656. 
 Jew, hath not a, eyes, 970. 
 Jews, Bible is the chronicle of 
 
 the, 141. 
 Joke, get a, well into a Scotch, 
 
 972. 
 Journey, good company in a, 
 
 973. 
 Journeymen, Nature's, had 
 
 made men, 1200. 
 Joy, helpers of their, 797. 
 
 in one's work is, 974. 
 Judge should lean on the side 
 
 of compassion, 977. 
 Judges must beware of hard 
 
 constructions, 976. 
 
342 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Judges teaeheth his, to sell 
 
 justice, 975. 
 Judgment falls upon a man 
 for, 979. 
 
 hath hred a remorse, 1567. 
 
 is forced upon us by ex- 
 perience, 978. 
 Justice cannot sleep forever, 
 1722. 
 
 generosity the floTrer of, 
 663. 
 
 is often pale, 728. 
 
 is immortal, 983. 
 
 is violent to the party of- 
 fending, 981. 
 
 no virtue so great as, 989. 
 
 rails upon yond thief, 984. 
 
 satisfies everybody, 982. 
 
 uncompromising as, 770. 
 
 Kindness blunts the sting of 
 unkindness, 9S5. 
 the law of, in her tongue, 
 986. 
 King, as tedious as a, 989. 
 Kings tyrants from policy, 987. 
 Kiss, not so loud as cannon, 
 
 990. 
 Kissing with inside lip, 991. 
 Knave, a slippery and subtle, 
 993. 
 he would be a double, 818. 
 the best defence against a, 
 992. 
 Knavery the best defence, 992. 
 Knife to thy throat, put a, 53. 
 Know what we are, 644. 
 Knowledge, feeling's a sort of, 
 995. 
 foundations of, were laid, 
 
 605. 
 he that increaseth, 998. 
 is power, 994. 
 of myself, profit in, 1681. 
 our only real, 996. 
 with, but without energy, 
 
 999. 
 without integrity is dan- 
 gerous, 997. 
 
 Labor for labor's sake, 1005. 
 habit of, essential to 
 health, 1004. 
 
 Labor has its summit in 
 heaven, 1001. 
 immigration of, 1006. 
 not repugnant to man, 
 
 1003. 
 when, quarrels with capi- 
 tal, 1002. 
 Laborers, number of useful, 
 
 1007. 
 Labors, children sweeten, 214. 
 Lacqueys with insolence and 
 
 plenty, 1008. 
 Ladies, the' first modern, 1009. 
 Lair, rouse the lion from his, 
 
 1010. 
 Lambs in the spring show us, 
 
 635. 
 Lamp, arguments smelt of the, 
 
 1011. 
 Land, the problem of, 1012. 
 Landmark, the ancient, 1013. 
 Landscape, the true ideal of, 
 
 1014. 
 Language, an attack upon, 78. 
 the blood of the soul, 1016. 
 the great aim of, 1015. 
 the immediate gift of God, 
 
 1017. 
 the secret of, 1831. 
 Laugh, man who cannot, fit 
 for treasons, 1018. 
 that win, 1021. 
 woman without a, 1022. 
 Laughter for a month, 964. 
 naught more ill-timed 
 
 than, 1019. 
 of a fool, 1020. 
 of man, contentment of 
 God, 1023. 
 Law, crowner's-quest, 1030. 
 ends, tyranny begins, 1027. 
 higher, than the Constitu- 
 tion, 1029. 
 is absolute justice, 1025. 
 is not, if it violates, 1024. 
 no, can meet the conven- 
 ience, 1028. 
 Laws are but copies of the 
 eternal, 1026. 
 of behavior yield, 137. 
 Lawyer, breath of an unfee'd. 
 1033. 
 rescues your estate, 1031. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 343 
 
 Lawyer, skull of a, 1034. 
 Lawyers, let's kill all the, 
 
 1032. 
 Laziness travels so slowly, 
 
 1035. 
 Learning hath infancy, youth, 
 strength of years, old 
 age, 1037. 
 was never decried by, 1038. 
 Legacies, books are, 152. 
 Legacy, no, so rich as honesty, 
 
 820. 
 Leisure, God forbid that it 
 should befall, 1040. 
 time for, something use- 
 ful, 1039. 
 Letter, a, is a conversation, 
 
 1041. 
 Liar, I do despise a, 1125. 
 
 pain makes the innocent 
 man a, 1338. 
 Liars, the most mischievous, 
 
 1121. 
 Libels, some make light of, 
 
 1012. 
 Liberty a plant of rapid 
 growth, 1050. 
 eternal vigilance the price 
 
 of, 1052. 
 give me, or give me death, 
 
 1048. 
 God grants, to those who 
 
 love it, 1051. 
 how many crimes are com- 
 mitted, 1049. 
 is never cheap, 1046. 
 pardon something to the 
 
 spirit of, 1044. 
 rendered more precious 
 
 by, 1045. 
 sun of, is set, 1047. 
 Library, a well-chosen, 1055. 
 access for himself and fam- 
 ily to some social, 1054. 
 Lie, men of high degree are a, 
 332. 
 that many men will not 
 believe, 11 26. 
 Lies are like the father that 
 
 begets them , 1 L23. 
 Life a campaign, not a battle, 
 1060. 
 a little gleam of time, 1058. 
 
 Life, an age to the miserable, 
 1056. 
 another name for action, 
 
 1059. 
 care is an enemy to, 184. 
 how happy the' unembar- 
 rassed, 183. 
 is a shuttle, 1061. 
 is a species of energy, 459. 
 is not so short, 276. 
 love, better than tigs, 1062 
 noble, crowned with heroic 
 
 death, 803. 
 not dated by years, 1057. 
 without holidays is like 
 a long journey, S12. 
 Light, a burning and a shining, 
 1065. 
 God's eldest daughter, 1064. 
 is the first of paint e is, 
 1063. 
 Lightness the distinctive line 
 
 between, 1066. 
 Like begets like, 1705. 
 Lilies of the held, consider 
 
 the, 106S. 
 Limb, bit of the under, 1069. 
 Limbo, gate of Dante's, 1070. 
 Limitation, physiological and 
 
 cerebral, 1071. 
 Line, fight it out on this, 1074. 
 who hath stretched the, 
 1075. 
 Lineaments of the body, 1076. 
 Linen, let Thisby have clean, 
 1077. 
 smells of lavender, 1078. 
 Lion among Ladies, 1081. 
 
 living dog better than a 
 
 dead, 1060. 
 rouse the, from his lair, 
 1010. 
 Lip. cup and the, 1732. 
 
 kissing with inside, 991. 
 Lispers, took an aversion to 
 
 letters, 1082. 
 Listener, a good, 1063. 
 Listening, please more by, 1084. 
 Literature, a sort of rule in, 
 1411. 
 
 forms the line of demarca- 
 tion. 10S7. 
 should be ragged, 1088. 
 
 
344 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Literature, style is the immor- 
 tal thing in, 1800. 
 
 the thought of thinking 
 souls, 1085. 
 
 we cultivate, on oatmeal, 
 1089. 
 
 whenever it consoles sor- 
 row, 89. 
 
 writes the character of, 
 1086. 
 London a habitation of bit- 
 terns, 101. 
 
 the epitome of our times, 
 1090. 
 
 the Rome of to-day, 1090. 
 Loneliness, the best, is, 1092. 
 Lord hath taken away, 1093. 
 Lose what he never had, 1094. 
 Lot is cast, estate in which 
 
 thy, 1095. 
 Love, a universal leveller, 1099. 
 
 an oyster may be crossed 
 in, 1336. 
 
 are you so much in, 1105. 
 
 foolishly, better to, than 
 not at all, 1107. 
 
 inwrought in our enthusi- 
 asm, 1100. 
 
 is strong as death, 959. 
 
 is swift, sincere, pious, 
 1102. 
 
 man in, with one woman, 
 111. 
 
 man who does not, 1103. 
 
 much, little boldness, 1097. 
 
 the highest symbol of 
 friendship, 1101. 
 
 the life of the soul, 1098. 
 
 the medicine of moral evil, 
 1096. 
 
 thy neighbor as thyself, 
 1271. 
 
 which a Christian bears to 
 his Redeemer, 968. 
 
 will make men dare to die, 
 1104. 
 
 wisely, best to, 1107. 
 Loved, no sooner looked but 
 
 they, 1106. 
 Lover, all mankind love a 
 1108. 
 
 resolve the propositions 
 of a, 1110. 
 
 Lover's character, beautiful 
 
 trait in, 1109. 
 Luck, good, the handmaid of 
 character, 1113. 
 lies in odd numbers, 1114. 
 may make madness wis- 
 dom, 1112. 
 Luxury a word of uncertain 
 signification, 1119. 
 yesterday is comfort to- 
 day, 1118. 
 Lying, as easy as, 1124. 
 
 how the world is given to, 
 
 1122. 
 nothing more criminal 
 than, 1120. 
 
 Maceration of the body, 1127. 
 
 Machinations, hollo wness, 
 treachery, 1128. 
 
 Machine, human body is a, 
 1129. 
 while this, is to him, Ham- 
 let, 1131. 
 
 Machinery a term invented by 
 the critics, 1130. 
 
 Madness, though this be, 1132. 
 very midsummer, 1133. 
 
 Magician, profound in this art, 
 1134. 
 
 Magistracy, political execu- 
 tive, a great trust, 1135. 
 
 Magistrate, let the, be labor- 
 ing men, 1136. 
 
 Magnificence cannot be cheap, 
 1137. 
 
 Majority, one on God ; s side is 
 a, 1139. 
 should deprive a minority, 
 1138. 
 
 Maker, accounts with my, 119. 
 
 Malady of not marking, 1140. 
 
 Malcontents, the Mars, of 1141. 
 
 Malice forced with wit, 1145. 
 knowledge is darkened in 
 
 your, 1144. 
 no, nor ill-will, 1143. 
 with, toward none, 205. 
 
 Mammonism, all except, a vain 
 grimace, 1146. 
 
 Man, adversity hard upon a, 14. 
 attestation of a reasonable, 
 92. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 345 
 
 Man, bad, worse when he pre- 
 tends to be a saint, S43. 
 
 does not mean this or that, 
 1147. 
 
 frailty of a, GOG. 
 
 having nothing to say, 
 1842. 
 
 honest, able to speak for 
 himself, 819. 
 
 is free who is protected 
 from injury, 615. 
 
 is the will, 834. 
 
 lazy, is a bad man, 857. 
 
 let him pass for a, 1150. 
 
 needs a, to perceive a, 1378. 
 
 not made for nature, 1149. 
 
 passes away, 325. 
 
 rich, is an honest man, 818. 
 
 should keep to his own 
 caste, 185. 
 
 superior, faults of the, 1818. 
 
 the forces of many in one, 
 1148. 
 
 who fights against his 
 country, 1916. 
 
 who has ancestors, 37. 
 
 who loves his country, 1362. 
 
 with knowledge, but with- 
 out energy, 999. 
 
 worth knowing well, 5. 
 
 Manhood, Christianity is the 
 
 ideal form of, 219. 
 
 makes much against my, 
 1152. 
 
 power the measure of, 1151. 
 Mankind, common sense of, 
 1154. 
 
 deserve better of, 1438. 
 
 the history of, 1153. 
 Manner, the most insinuating, 
 
 127. 
 Maimers must adorn knowl- 
 edge, 1155. 
 
 nothing settled in, 137. 
 
 the element of good, 1156. 
 Man's heart deviseth his way, 
 782. 
 
 house is his castle, 186. 
 
 will, seat of freedom, 105. 
 Maples, what are those, 1927. 
 March, the ides of, 1157. 
 Marriage a permanent co-part- 
 nership, 1159. 
 
 Marriage, after a reaction, 
 1161. 
 the dictate of nature, 1160. 
 the means of happiness, 
 1160. 
 Marry ancient people, 491. 
 Martyrs, blood of the, 148. 
 Mason, who builds stronger 
 
 than the, 651. 
 Matrimony has made you 
 eloquent, 1164. 
 sea for which no compass, 
 1165. 
 Mathematician, predicts the 
 
 planet, 593. 
 Matter, how great a, 1166. 
 Maxims are to the intellect 
 
 what laws, 1167. 
 Meanness, characteristic of, is 
 
 cruelty, 1168. 
 Measures have always been 
 
 my mark, 1169. 
 Meat too good for any but 
 
 anglers, 1170. 
 Medicines to make me love 
 
 him, 1171. 
 Meditation, the art of, 1172. 
 Meek, blessed are the, 1173. 
 Melancholy, companions of 
 most, 1174. 
 compounded o f m a n y 
 
 simples, 1630. 
 suck, out of a song, 1175. 
 Melodrama mimics the tragic, 
 
 1176. 
 Memory, grant, to us, 1181. 
 the art of attention, 1179. 
 will not be ruled, 1178. 
 Men, great, are still admirable, 
 11. 
 hate those to whom they 
 
 have to lie, 773. 
 in teaching others, learn, 
 
 932. 
 Nature's journeymen had 
 
 made, 10. 
 of talents seldom escape 
 attacks, 284. 
 Merciful, blessed are the, 1182. 
 Mercy, no show of, 99. 
 
 nobility's true badge, 11S3. 
 they shall obtain, 1182. 
 Merit, the assumption of, 11S4. 
 
346 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Merriment, your flashes of, 
 
 1185. 
 Merry, a fool to make me, 
 
 1186. 
 Metaphor, never get nearer to 
 
 truth than in a, 11S7. 
 Method, a, for everything, 
 1188. 
 without, the largest for- 
 tune will, 432. 
 Milk, such as have need of, 
 
 1189. 
 Millstone, heart is like a, 781. 
 were hanged about his 
 neck, 1190. 
 Mind, affectation necessary to, 
 20. 
 awful in ruins, 1192. 
 can dwell a hermit, 1193. 
 conversation is the music 
 
 of the, 266. 
 does the work of the Avorld, 
 
 1191. 
 is the lever of all things, 
 
 1894, 
 nothing is old but the, 47. 
 power to broaden the, 3. 
 Miracle constantly repeated 
 
 becomes a. 1194. 
 Miracles constitute a language 
 
 of heaven. 1195. 
 Mirror, hold the, up to nature, 
 
 1259. 
 Mirth from the crown of his 
 head to, 1197. 
 like a flash of lightning, 
 1196. 
 Miser is as much without,what 
 he has, 1199. 
 punishment of a, 1198. 
 Miserv acquaints with strange 
 
 bed-fellows, 1200. 
 Misfortune, in. to smile is to 
 
 offend, 1201. 
 Misfortunes, greatest, come 
 from ourselves, 1203. 
 have their redeeming pow- 
 er, 1202. 
 one should so bear oneself 
 in, 1204. 
 Mob have no judgment, 1205. 
 nation which has made a. 
 1206. 
 
 Moderation is the silken string, 
 1207. 
 ! Modesty with nobler virtues, 
 1208. 
 Monarchv, the trappings of a, 
 
 1209. 
 Monev becomes character, 
 1211. 
 can beget money, 1213. 
 love of, root of all evil, 
 
 1214. 
 Paul, can do anything, 
 
 1212. 
 put, in thy purse, 1215. 
 Monotony, the, of sunshine, 
 
 1216. 
 Monument becomes a ruin, 
 325. 
 shall live no longer in, 1217. 
 Monuments ami eulogy belong 
 
 to the dead, 1218. 
 Moods, nature has no, 1219. 
 Moon beholds the setting sun, 
 1816. 
 glancing through bars of 
 
 cloud, 684. 
 is sculpture, 1220. 
 Moral suasion, I believe in, 
 
 1224. 
 Morality good as far as it goes, 
 1221. 
 is of the most primitive 
 
 kind, 1222. 
 there is only one, 1223. 
 Morning, if I take the wings 
 
 of, 1225. 
 Mother, a, in the house, mat- 
 ters speed well, 1227. 
 you are not responsible to 
 set the whole world right, 
 1226. 
 Moth-kings lay up treasures, 
 
 988. 
 Motion, marvellousness of this 
 
 phenomenon, 1229. 
 Motive, action, the result of a 
 great, 1231. 
 want of, makes life dreary, 
 1230. 
 Mountains, Delectable, 1232. 
 never shake hands, 1233. 
 Mountebanks for the politic 
 body, 1234. 
 
IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 347 
 
 Mourning, better to go to the 
 
 house of, 1235. 
 Mouth, voice without a, 430. 
 Murder, every unounished, 
 1238. 
 seems to run in families, 
 
 1237. 
 will out, 123G. 
 Muse, to, is to sit in the sun, 
 
 and not think, 1243. 
 Music, discourse most elo- 
 quent, 1241. 
 is the poor man's Par- 
 nassus, 1239. 
 of the mind, conversation 
 
 is the. 266. 
 without the idea is simplv, 
 1240. 
 Musical temperament, nothing 
 more irritating to the, 1242. 
 Mystery of mysteries is, 1244. 
 
 Nail, for want of a, the shoe 
 was lost, 1269. 
 
 on the head, hit the, 1245. 
 Name, he calleth vou by your 
 Christian, 529. 
 
 what the dickens his, is, 
 1249. 
 Names, homeliness of Bun- 
 yan's, 1247. 
 
 mania of giving, 1246. 
 
 Milton's fondness of son- 
 orous, 1248. 
 Nation, if everv, will emplov, 
 1487. 
 
 institutions alone can cre- 
 ate a, 1251. 
 
 no, can be unjust with 
 impunity, 1252. 
 
 which has made a mob of 
 itself, 1206. 
 Nations, road all, have trod, 
 
 1250. 
 Nature, amajestv and mvstery 
 
 • in, 1253. 
 
 a part of our, 754. 
 
 amen of, is a flower, 581. 
 
 and truth are one, 1256. 
 
 created to inspire feeling, 
 1257. 
 
 did never put her precious 
 jewels, 656. 
 
 Nature has no moods, 1219. 
 hold the mirror up to, 1259. 
 human, constitution of, 
 
 1723. 
 is no spendthrift, 1255. 
 made for man, 1149. 
 repairs her ravages, 1254. 
 talk of subduing, is non- 
 sense, 1261. 
 Nature's above art, 1258. 
 
 journeymen had made 
 men, 10. 
 Navigators, winds are on the 
 
 side of the ablest, 1262. 
 Necessaries, thou shalt sell 
 
 thy, 887. 
 Necessity has no law, 1265. 
 make a virtue of, 1263. 
 the argument of tyrants, 
 
 1266. 
 the creed of slaves, 1266. 
 the mother of courage, 
 
 1267. 
 urges desperate measures, 
 
 1264. 
 villains by, 1268. 
 Needs must/ when the Devil 
 
 drives, 351. 
 Neglect mav breed great mis- 
 chief, 1269. 
 Neighbor, modern society ac- 
 knowledges no, 127<). 
 News abroad, there's villan- 
 ous, 1273. 
 his horn full of, 1272. 
 Newspapers always excite 
 curiosity, 127o. 
 are the schoolmasters. 1274. 
 thev are the most villan- 
 ous, 1276. 
 Nickname is the hardest stone, 
 
 1277. 
 Nicknames and whippings, 
 
 1278. 
 Night unto night showeth 
 
 knowledge, 1279. 
 Nimshi, Jehu, the son of, 412. 
 Nose was as sharp as a pen, 
 
 56-5. 
 Noses, hold, to the grindstone, 
 
 1281. 
 Nothing against which human 
 ingenuity, 1 
 
348 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Nothing proceeds from noth- 
 ingness, 1282. 
 
 Nothingness, nothing proceeds 
 from, 1282. 
 
 Notorious, he who has become, 
 1283. 
 
 November, the later twilight, 
 1304. 
 
 Number importeth not much 
 in armies, 1286. 
 
 Numbers, divinity in odd, 390. 
 
 Oak, the, roars, 1783. 
 
 Oath, character as security, 
 
 rather than, 1287. 
 gives manhood more appro- 
 
 bation, 1288. 
 heaven's chancery with 
 
 the, 1289. 
 Obduracy and persistency, 1290. 
 Obedience, child's first lesson, 
 
 1292. 
 flower of, is intelligence, 
 
 1291. 
 life of, highest type of per- 
 fection, 1293. 
 Objects attained by associa- 
 tion, 85. 
 Obligation, notion of virtue 
 
 imnlies the notion of, 
 
 1294. 
 Obligations, in no way alters, 
 
 88. 
 Obliquity of understanding, an 
 
 honest, 1295. 
 Oblivion, the page whereon 
 
 memory, 1177. 
 Observation, by my penny of, 
 
 1297. 
 Occasion hath her hair on her 
 
 forehead, 1298. 
 Occasions and causes why, 189. 
 Occupation, a mind without, 
 
 1299. 
 Ocean lay like a waving mir- 
 ror, 1301. 
 the barrier of my country, 
 
 1303. 
 October is its sunset sky, 1304. 
 the month for painted 
 
 leaves, 1304. 
 O'Dowd, Peggy, is indeed the 
 
 same, 401. 
 
 Offence, guilt of, varies in- 
 versely, 1306. 
 Office, a dog's obeyed in, 1308. 
 Offices, whenever man has cast 
 
 a longing eye on, 1307. 
 Oil that is in me, 793. 
 Old age the repose of life, 1311. 
 • never say you are too, 1309. 
 thou shouldst not have 
 been, 1313. 
 Opinion, a plague of, 1319. 
 difference of, 1315. 
 is truth filtered, 1318. 
 is uniformity of, desirable, 
 
 1316. 
 too good, that man has, 
 1672. 
 Opinions, man's, of more value 
 than arguments, 1314. 
 popular, seldom or never 
 the whole truth, 1317. 
 Opportunity, our great social 
 and political advantage, 
 1320. 
 to the man who can't use 
 it, 1321. 
 Oppression another name for 
 irresponsible power, 1323. 
 Oracle, each man is an, 801. 
 Oration, some verbose, 1768. 
 Orator, capital of the, 1326. 
 no true, who is not a hero, 
 1324. 
 Oratory, action the first part 
 
 of, 9. 
 Oratory, the effect of, 1325. 
 Ordeal, the, is a superstition, 
 
 1327. 
 Order, the modest limits of, 
 1329. 
 the preservation of, 1328. 
 Organism, the essential thing 
 
 in any, 1330. 
 Organization, how many forms 
 
 of, 1331. 
 Originality, the one thing 
 which unoriginal minds 
 cannot, feel the use, 1332. 
 wrapped in the solitude of 
 his own, 1333. 
 Orthodoxy is my doxy, 1334. 
 Outcasts who landed at Plym- 
 outh, 1335. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 349 
 
 Overcame, I came, saw, and, 
 
 2002. 
 Owl, the cynic is the human, 
 
 300. 
 Oyster, a bold man that first 
 
 eat, 1337. 
 may be crossed in love, 
 
 1336. 
 
 Pain has its own noble joy, 
 1340. 
 makes the innocent man a 
 
 liar, 1338. 
 nor, which death does not 
 terminate, 594. 
 Painting is silent poetry, 1342. 
 
 the art of, 1341. 
 Paintings, I have heard of 
 
 your, 845. 
 Pansies, that's for thoughts, 
 
 1566. 
 Paper bullets of the brain, 841. 
 Parent, no love like that of 
 
 the, 1344. 
 Parenthesis, what a, contains, 
 
 1343. 
 Parents have most reverence 
 
 who most deserve, 1345. 
 Paris, when they die good 
 
 Americans go to, 1346. 
 Parnassus, music is the poor 
 
 man's, 1239. 
 Parts, attraction of my good, 
 
 94. 
 Party, go to heaven but with 
 a, 1348. 
 he serves his, best, 1347. 
 is the madness of many, 
 1349. 
 Passion, avarice is a universal, 
 108. 
 the avalanche of the hu- 
 man heart, 1350. 
 to tatters, tear a, 1351. 
 Past at least is secure, 1353. 
 never plan the future by 
 
 the, 1352. 
 present time springs from 
 the, 1565. 
 Pathos, humor consistent 
 
 with, 840. 
 Patience, he that can have, 
 1357. 
 
 Patience, how far will you 
 abuse, 1356. 
 no man knows the lists of 
 
 his, 1354. 
 one great secret of, 1358. 
 poor are they that have 
 
 not, 1359. 
 will achieve more than 
 force, 1355. 
 Patriot gladly dies for his 
 
 country, 1360. 
 Patriotism, man is little to be 
 envied whose, 1364. 
 old public opinion of, 1365- 
 the last refuge of a scoun- 
 drel, 1363. 
 the vital condition of 
 national permanence, 
 1361. 
 Peace and friendship our 
 wisest policy, 1434. 
 at any price, 1367. 
 effectual means of pre- 
 serving, 1371. 
 I love, and am anxious, 
 
 1370. 
 let us have, 1369. 
 name of the chamber was, 
 
 1368. 
 who knocks at the door of, 
 34. 
 Peacemaker, your if is the 
 
 only, 1372. 
 Pearl in your foul oyster, 1373. 
 Peasants, descent from, not 
 
 disgraceful, 38. 
 Pease, like as one, to, 1067. 
 Pen is the tongue of the mind, 
 
 1374. 
 Penitence is only madness 
 
 turned, 1375. 
 People, chief glory of every, 
 103. 
 last, I should choose, 39. 
 silent, 1701. 
 they that marry ancient, 
 
 491. 
 think themselves luperior 
 
 to heaven, 1409. 
 trained by attrition, 96. 
 who deny others, 1680. 
 who dictate their own 
 measures, 1376, 
 
350 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 People whose annals are 
 
 blank, 45. 
 Perfection, a point of, in art, 
 
 1379. 
 Perfumes of Arabia will not 
 
 sweeten, 760. 
 Persecution, in various shapes, 
 13S2. 
 of innocent people, 1381. 
 the history of, 1380. 
 Perseverance, great works 
 
 performed by, 13S3. 
 Persistence of force, the, 591. 
 Personality, God's 95. 
 
 greatest and most vital 
 power is, 1385. 
 Pessimist obtrudes himself on 
 
 the public, 1386. 
 Pest of society is egotists, 439. 
 Philanthropists, two classes of, 
 
 1388. 
 Philosopher, a true, beyond the 
 reach of fortune! 1390. 
 be a, but be a man, 13S9. 
 Philosophy, before, can teach 
 by experience, 1391. 
 comprises the understand- 
 ing of duty, 1392, 
 goes no further than prob- 
 abilities, 1393. 
 hast any, in thee, 1394. 
 Phrase, a fico for the, 1396. 
 Phraseology, evil effects from 
 
 an eccentric, 1395. 
 Physician exercises his art 
 with caution, 1399. 
 the flower of our civiliza- 
 tion, 1398. 
 Pi, babe of mv brain served in, 
 
 1400. 
 Pianist, a trained. 91. 
 Picture, no. can be good, 1402. 
 
 the beauty of the, 1401. 
 Piety best displayed in pur- 
 suits, 1403. 
 is not a religion, 1404. 
 Pilgrim, Autumn comes not 
 like a, 106. 
 thev laid in a large upper 
 chamber, 1368. 
 Pilgrimage may be reasonable 
 
 or superstitious, 1405. 
 Pines, what are these, 1927. 
 
 Pitch, he that toucheth, shall 
 
 be defiled, 1406. 
 Pitcher strike the stone, or 
 
 the stone, 1407. 
 Pitv, one draught of human, 
 798. 
 the, of it, Iago, 1408. 
 Place, man who sits in the 
 
 lowest, 830. 
 Places do not ennoble men, 
 
 1410. 
 Plagiarists, honest, 1412. 
 Plague, lest it should be the, 
 
 342. 
 Plants, structure of, 86. 
 Plastic work, beauty of. 1657. 
 Play has as legitimate a place 
 
 as prayers, 1413. 
 Plavers that I have seen play, 
 
 10. 
 Pleasure, age of, compensa- 
 tion for a moment of 
 pain, 1339. 
 do not bite at the bait of, 
 
 1417. 
 lies in tranquillity, 1414. 
 mav perfect us as truly, 
 1415. 
 Pleasures, every age has its, 24. 
 rlv, and thev will follow, 
 
 '1416. 
 multiplied or oontinued, 
 
 1418. 
 what, are harmless, 1419. 
 Pledge is the daughter of in- 
 jury. 1421. 
 to each other our lives, 
 our fortunes, 1117. 
 Plot, who cannot be crushed 
 
 by a. 1422. 
 Poem, a. the image of life, 
 
 1428. 
 Poet. a. soaring, 1431. 
 
 man's sincerity and vision 
 
 make him a. 1429. 
 must be judged by his poe- 
 tic qualities, 1430. 
 who does not revere his 
 art, 1432. 
 Poetrv, angling is somewhat 
 like, 44. 
 arranges the symbols of 
 thought. 1424. " 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 351 
 
 Poetry, eldest sister of arts, 
 1425. 
 is painting, 13-12. 
 lyrical, 1427. 
 manhood of, is the drama, 
 
 402. 
 only that is, which cleanses, 
 
 1426. 
 the most beautiful mode 
 of saying things, 1423. 
 Poets steal from Homer, 816. 
 Poison itself is a remedy, 
 
 1433. 
 Politeness, benevolence in 
 small things, 1435. 
 the art of choosing, 1436. 
 Political economy deals with 
 
 only one side, 1439. 
 Politician, conduct of a wise, 
 
 1437. 
 Politics, a deleterious profes- 
 sion, 1441. 
 happy by, 1440. 
 holds up the torches of, 
 
 1442. 
 the science of exigencies, 
 1443. 
 Popularity, I don't care a rig 
 for, 1446. 
 true, takes deep root, 1445. 
 Portrait, to sit for one's, 1447. 
 Possession eleyen points in 
 the law, 1448. 
 sees many sides, 79. 
 Possessions, care taken to 
 
 limit, 1072. 
 Possibilities, seven hundred 
 
 pounds and, 691. 
 Posterity, that high court of 
 appeal, 1453. 
 think of your, 40. 
 you will never know how 
 much it cost, 1452. 
 Poverty deprives a man of 
 spirit, 1454. 
 is a bully, 1456. 
 is the mother of crimes, 283. 
 standard of, rises, 1455. 
 Power, from the summit of, 
 1458. 
 is always insolent and des- 
 potic, 1459. 
 knowledge is, 994. 
 
 Power of uttering God to men, 
 966. 
 sometimes ought to be re- 
 
 1 used, 1457. 
 the measure of manhood, 
 
 1151. 
 to broaden the mind, •';. 
 Praise from another is better, 
 1463 
 he would not provoke it, 
 
 1464. 
 man who does not love, 
 
 1462. 
 moderate, and not vulgar, 
 
 1460. 
 some deserve, 1465. 
 the reflection of virtue, 
 1461. 
 Prayed heartily, no man ever, 
 
 1466. 
 Prayer a goodly Christian's 
 
 weapon, 1467. 
 Prayers, lest the devil cross 
 
 my, 1468. 
 Preaching, the chief end of, 
 
 1469. 
 Precedent, a, embalms a prin- 
 ciple, 1470. 
 for what oppression may 
 not a, 1471. 
 Precept upon precept, 1472. 
 Predecessor, memory of thy, 
 
 1473. 
 Prejudice is the child of igno- 
 rance, 1475. 
 Prejudices, people have, 1474. 
 Press, freedom of the, 1476. 
 Pride and conceit the original 
 sin, 1708. 
 as loud a beggar as want, 
 
 1478. 
 goeth before destruction, 
 
 349. 
 is a fault that, 1477. 
 is his own glass, 1479. 
 Princes like heavenly bodies, 
 
 1624. 
 Principle, safest, through life, 
 1677. 
 the living rock of, 14S0. 
 Printer, a, of news, 1482. 
 
 raised to the pillory, 1481. 
 Printing, thou hast caused, 1483. 
 
352 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Privilege, what men prize 
 most, 1484. 
 
 Probabilities, discredit even, 
 1485. 
 
 Problem, industrial, is solved, 
 1692. 
 
 Profanely, not to speak it, 
 1488. 
 
 Progress has been from scaf- 
 fold to scaffold, 1491. 
 
 Promise, never, more than you 
 can perform, 1494. 
 not to perform, is folly, 
 1492. 
 
 Promise-keeping, precise in, 
 1495. 
 
 Promises, hold one's country 
 to, 1493. 
 
 Property, force man's from 
 him, 1877. 
 right to, founded in, 
 1497. 
 
 Prose is a walk of business, 
 1498. 
 
 Proselytizer, when the, begins 
 his operations, 1499. 
 
 Prosperity the blessing of the 
 Old Testament, 1500. 
 with a little more taste, 
 1501. 
 
 Protestant religion, 1502. 
 
 Protestations with men are 
 like tears, 1503. 
 
 Proverb not amiss when aptly 
 applied, 1504. 
 
 Proverbs, sanctuary of the in- 
 tuitions, 1505. 
 
 Providence does not favor in- 
 dividuals, 1507. 
 furnishes the limpest per- 
 sonality, 1073. 
 on the side of, 1506. 
 sufficient to demonstrate 
 a, 339. 
 
 Prudence, in, some master vir- 
 tue, 1508. 
 must be paid for, 1510. 
 the virtue of the senses, 
 1509. 
 
 Prudent, chance favors the, 
 195. 
 
 Public opinion, nothing more 
 unjust than, 1511. 
 
 Pulpit, idea of a, is, 1512. 
 
 Punctuality the politeness of 
 kings, 1513. 
 
 Punishment which crushes a 
 cause is, 1514. 
 
 Puns are the wit of words, 
 1515. 
 
 Puritan not a man of specula- 
 tion, 1517. 
 
 Puritanism meant something 
 when, 1516. 
 
 Puritans gave the world ac- 
 tion, 8. 
 hated bear-baiting, 1420. 
 
 Purity of mind and conduct, 
 1519. 
 
 Purpose, action done to a 
 great, 1520. 
 
 Purse, put money in thy, 1215. 
 
 Pursuit, one must espouse 
 some, 2014. 
 
 Pyramids, names of their 
 founders, 1521. 
 
 Pythias, scoffing at Demos- 
 thenes, 1011. 
 
 Qualitv, things that have a, 
 
 1522. 
 Quarrel with a man for crack- 
 ing nuts, 1525. 
 Quarrels, head is full of, 777. 
 
 in which even Satan, 1523. 
 Quarter, what comes from this, 
 
 649. 
 Question, one side of every, 79. 
 sudden, bold, 1526. 
 two sides, to every, 1527. 
 Quiddities, where be his, 1034. 
 Quips and sentences and, 841. 
 Quotation, every book a, 1531. 
 requires more delicacy, 
 Quote, wise reader, to wisely, 
 
 1528. 
 Quoter, first, of a good sen- 
 tence, 1534. 
 Quotes, a great man, bravely, 
 1530. 
 
 Rage, die here in a, 1536. 
 Rags are the beggar's robe, 
 
 1537. 
 Rain, whose soft architectural 
 
 hand, 1538. 
 
IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 353 
 
 Ramparts of our cities, 1540. 
 Rank is a great beautiner, 1539. 
 Read, in science, the newest 
 works, 1542. 
 what books, men of rare 
 
 intellect, 1543. 
 with profit, read with plea- 
 sure, 1545. 
 Reading is to the mind what 
 exercise, 1548. 
 limited to the few great 
 
 books, 1544. 
 maketh a full man, 253. 
 of many books, the, 1541. 
 Reason, beauty is based on, 
 128. 
 given by God to attain 
 
 knowledge, 1554. 
 if you will not hear, 1549. 
 is man's highest gift, 1550. 
 man surrendering, has no 
 
 guard, 1551. 
 to be hoodwinked, 647. 
 Reasoning, the philosophy of, 
 
 1552. ' 
 Reasons are as two grains of 
 wheat, 194. 
 as plenty as blackberries, 
 1553. 
 Reflection, feeling comes be- 
 fore, 561. 
 leisure for, 1555. 
 Regret, never uttered a vain, 
 
 1558. 
 Relations, poor, great men 
 
 have their, 1444. 
 Reliance, futility of an easy, 
 
 641. 
 Religion cannot be forced, 
 1563. 
 contracts the circle of our 
 
 pleasures, 1560. 
 freedom is a new, 612. 
 freedom of, 1562. 
 the basis of civil societv, 
 
 1561. 
 the practice of righteous- 
 ness, 1559. 
 Remedy, a, for every wrong, 
 246. 
 in morals, worse than the 
 
 disease, 1564. 
 worse than the disease, 379. 
 
 Remembrance, no. which time 
 
 does not, 594. 
 Remorse, judgment hath bred 
 
 a, 15G7. 
 Renunciation remains sorrow, 
 
 1568. 
 Repent, I '11, and that sud- 
 denly, 1570. 
 Repentance is a recanting of 
 
 the will, 1569. 
 Republican government, the- 
 ory of, 1571. 
 only government not at 
 war, 1572. 
 Reputation an idle imposition, 
 1576. 
 if you esteem your, 1577. 
 live on the reputation of 
 
 the, 1574. 
 of the master, 1573. 
 shall last some people 
 twice the time, 1575. 
 Resentment gratifies him, 1578. 
 Resignation, thought leads to, 
 
 1579. 
 Resolve will betray itself, 500. 
 Respect, best preserved, 1580. 
 
 worthy of, 1581. 
 Respectable implies, observ- 
 ances, 1582! 
 Responsibilities, ignorance will 
 
 never take away, 1584. 
 Responsibility an instrument 
 
 of education, 1583. 
 Rest is for the dead, 1585. 
 Results, no chance in, 1587. 
 Resurrection, the body of the, 
 
 1588. 
 Retreat, an honorable, 15S9. 
 Revenge, feed my, 1595. 
 he that studieth, 1592. 
 is a wild justice. 1593. 
 is the naked idol. 159(5. 
 in, haste is, 1591. 
 small, in words, 1594. 
 Reverence begins with rever- 
 ence, 1597. 
 for the gods, 1598. 
 is not slavery, 1599. 
 Revolution a natural growth, 
 1601. 
 to break up a constitution 
 is, 1602. 
 
354 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Revolutions not lightly com- 
 menced, 1600. 
 Reward of a great service, 
 
 1603. 
 Rliythm a characteristic of all 
 
 motion, 1601. 
 Rich, thought, as good as, 1608. 
 what we give up, makes us, 
 1689. 
 Riches, a good name better 
 than, 1607. 
 have wings, 1605. 
 not an end of life, 1606. 
 Riddle of the earth, 1609. 
 Ridicule the stifler of energy, 
 1610. 
 the weapon most feared, 
 y 1611. 
 Ridiculous, step above the, 
 
 makes, 1801. 
 Right, do whatever is, 1614. 
 makes might, 1615. 
 more beautiful than affec- 
 tion, 1613. 
 rather be, than be presi- 
 dent, 1612. 
 with firmness in the, 205. 
 Righteousness exalteth a na- 
 tion, 1617. 
 is at the bottom of all 
 things, 1616. 
 Rights, not lording over their, 
 797. 
 if we cannot secure all, 
 
 1618. 
 the, of another man, 1619. 
 River the cosiest of friends, 
 
 1620. 
 Roguery to be found in men, 
 
 279. 
 Romance a gospel of some 
 
 philosophy, 1621. 
 Romantic, every form of hu- 
 man life is, 1622. 
 Rose, blossom as the, 340. 
 
 no gathering, without 
 being pricked, 1623. 
 Rosemary, that's for remem- 
 brance, 1566. 
 Rue with a difference, 356. 
 Rupert of debate, 321. 
 Rural life, the love of, 1625. 
 Rust, to wear out than to, 2113. 
 
 Rust-kings lay up treasures, 
 
 Sabbath made for man, 1627. 
 Sabbath-days, quiet islands, 
 
 1626. 
 Sacrifices are necessary to save 
 
 rights, 1628. 
 Sadness, a most humorous, 
 
 1630. 
 Safety in the multitude of 
 
 counsellors, 1631. 
 Salt, flinging, upon, 1633. 
 
 of life, disappointment the, 
 
 366. 
 something holy in, 1632. 
 Saltness of time, 26. 
 Sarcasm, the arrows of, 1635. 
 Satan came also, 1636. 
 Satiety, constant enjoyment 
 
 breeds, 1637. 
 Satire is a sort of glass, 1638. 
 Satirists describe the age, 115. 
 gain applause through 
 fear, 1639. 
 Satisfaction for every soul, 
 246. 
 vice stimulated by, 1640. 
 Saxon, the outlandish, 304. 
 Scandal is everlasting, 1719. 
 Sceptic, the most unflinching, 
 
 393. 
 Schedules of my beauty, 1000. 
 Schemes ruined by want of 
 
 thought, 1642. 
 Schisms, in criticising and de- 
 ploring, 1643. 
 Scholar, a great, is, 1644. 
 the mind of the, 1645. 
 School, experience keeps & 
 
 dear, 493. 
 Schoolmaster is abroad, 1646. 
 
 not at ease in, 1647. 
 Science, antidote to enthusi- 
 asm, 1652. 
 earliest ages, was poetry, 
 
 1650. 
 has fallen short, 1654. 
 has not found a, 1648. 
 its debt to imagination, 
 
 organized knowledge, 1653. 
 work of, is to, 1651. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 355 
 
 Scorn them who scorn us, 
 
 1655. 
 Scribbling, worst way of being 
 
 intimate, 940. 
 Scripture, how dost thou un- 
 derstand, 784. 
 Scrivener, a notched and cropt, 
 
 1656. 
 Sculpture, moonlight is, 1220. 
 Sea, bury me in the, 1659. 
 
 drowns humanity and 
 
 time, 1302. 
 has no appreciation o f , 
 
 1658. 
 Seclusion, deeper depths of, 
 
 1660. 
 Secret, every human creature 
 
 is, 1663. 
 preserve, wrap it in frank- 
 ness, 1662. 
 three may keep a, 1661. 
 Seditions, way to prevent, 1664. 
 Self-conceit, s e 1 f-contenipla- 
 
 tion apt to end in, 1665. 
 Self-confidence, a petty pride, 
 
 or a realization, 1666. 
 Self-consciousness, a m i r r o r 
 
 the foundation of, 1668. 
 Self-contemplation apt to end 
 
 in, 1665. 
 Self-deceit, the veiled image 
 
 of unknown evil, 1669. 
 Self-denial indispensable to a 
 
 strong character, 1670. 
 Self-government assumes that 
 
 it is safer to, 1673. 
 does not comprehend, 1674. 
 Self-interest the most ingen- 
 ious of agents, 1678. 
 Selfishness is demonism, 1679. 
 Self-love, the way to get out 
 
 of, 1682. 
 Self-made, a, man, 1671. 
 Self-praise, the world's, 1684. 
 Self-punishment, haired is, 
 
 772. 
 Self-reliance, want o>", 370. 
 Solf-respect, corner-stone of 
 
 all virtue, 1686. 
 Self-righteousness the last idol 
 
 rooted out, 168 i. 
 Self-sacrifice of the Christian, 
 
 1690. 
 
 Senses, frighten me out of my, 
 
 034. 
 Sensuality is the grave of the 
 
 soul, 1691. 
 Sentiment is the sail, 834. 
 Servant a dog, is thy, 392. 
 Servant, world's, must prove 
 
 that lie can serve, 1693. 
 Shadow, dream itself is but a, 
 403. 
 of a sound, 430. 
 Shadows, Avhat, we are, 1694. 
 Shakespeare, the scope of, 
 
 1695. 
 Shame, where is, there is fear, 
 
 1696. 
 Ship, being in a, is, 955. 
 Shipwreck, man who has suf- 
 fered, 1698. 
 Shif tlessness another name for 
 
 aimlessness, 1697. 
 Shoe pinches me, my own, 1933. 
 want of a. the horse was 
 lost, 1269. 
 Sibyl, contortions of the, 927. 
 Silence gives consent, 1703. 
 great empire of , 1700. 
 in, there is safety, 1851. 
 is better than any speech, 
 
 1704. 
 made the reply to calum- 
 ny, 1699. 
 of a friend amounts to 
 
 treachery, 383. 
 shows that you agree, 1702. 
 Silent be, that he may hear, 
 1586. 
 people m ore interesting 
 
 than, 1701. 
 the great, man, 1700. 
 Silver not the only coin, 237, 
 Simulation is a vice, 1706. 
 Sin, original, of man, 1708. 
 
 takes out a patent, 1709. 
 Sincerity, attainment of, way 
 of man, 1711. 
 is impossible unless, 1712. 
 is the way to heaven, 1711. 
 pretence of it, 1712. 
 private, is, 1710. 
 Sinews of virtue, 375. 
 Singers are merry, 1713. 
 Singing is not for the law, 1713. 
 
356 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sins are more easily remem- 
 bered, 1707. 
 charity shall cover, 206. 
 
 God may forgive, 110. 
 Sky in which nature, 1716. 
 Slander, enemies carry about, 
 1719. 
 if, be a snake, 171S. 
 Slanderers, best to leave to 
 
 public opinion, 1717. 
 Slave, in giving freedom to 
 the, 613. 
 to his passions. 1724. 
 Slavery, a slave to oneself, 
 1725. 
 first touch of, 1723. 
 is a weed. 1720. 
 is but half abolished, 616. 
 natural and normal condi- 
 tion, 1726. 
 tolerates no freedom of, 
 
 1721. 
 where, is, there liberty 
 cannot. 1727. 
 Sleep, blessings on him who 
 invented, 1728. 
 exposition of, 1731. 
 is the best cure for waking 
 
 troubles, 1720. 
 much, not required, 1730. 
 resembles death, 172S. 
 to mine eves, will not give, 
 501. 
 Sleeve in his helm, 795. 
 Slip, many a. 1732. 
 Sloth consumes faster than. 
 1733. 
 makes things difficult, 902. 
 Sluggards sent to the ant, 
 1734. 
 sleep, plough deep while, 
 361. 
 Smell, rankest compound of 
 
 villanous, 1305. 
 Smile, faces that can afford to, 
 1735. 
 is beautiful with a tear, 
 1736. 
 Smoke arise, there can no 
 
 great, 568. 
 Smoking the pipe he loved, 
 
 1737. 
 Sneer, who can refute a, 1738. 
 
 Snob, by any other name 
 
 would, 1740. 
 Snobs found in every rank, 
 
 1739. 
 Snow, pure as, 179. 
 Society a place in which we in- 
 terchange life, 1741. 
 is u joint-^tock company, 
 
 1743. 
 is a masked ball, 1742. 
 is founded on hero-wor- 
 ship, 804. 
 is made up of partialities, 
 
 1744. 
 men in, dupes, 1745. 
 no comfort to one not, 
 
 1746. 
 returns us what we give it, 
 1747. 
 Soil and society, difference be- 
 tween, 1747. 
 Soldier, a, and af eared, 1750. 
 before a captavne, 1751. 
 the old, 1749. 
 Solicitudes arising out of, 1753. 
 Solidity, the idea of, 1754. 
 Solitude is like light, 1756. 
 little do men perceive 
 
 what, is, 1755. 
 needful to the imagination, 
 1757. 
 Song, deep things are, 1759. 
 great, has been sincere 
 
 song, 1761. 
 of Percy and Douglass, 
 1762. 
 Song, the voice of, 1760. 
 
 with a little nonsense, 
 1763. 
 Songs may exist unsung, 2017. 
 Sons, Adam's, my brethren, 
 
 1764. 
 Sophisters. economists, and, 
 
 1765. 
 Sophistry and exaggeration, 
 
 1766. 
 Sophomoric, bold, way, 1767. 
 Sorrow, hang. 1S2. 
 
 over the dead is, 1770. 
 sit thee down, 1775. 
 the great idealixer, 1773. 
 the rust of the soul, 1771. 
 though, must come, 1774- 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 357 
 
 Sorrows, every man has hi3, 
 1772. 
 out of the joys of other 
 men, 17G9. 
 Soul, an offshoot of the divine 
 mind, 1778. 
 every subject's, his own, 
 
 900. 
 far from human life, 1758. 
 is one with its faith, 1776. 
 it 's no my view o' human 
 life that a man 's sent 
 just to save his, 1634. 
 never grows old, 1780. 
 one thing of value, 1779. 
 satisfaction for every, 246. 
 stands between light and 
 
 darkness, 1777. 
 take thine ease, 1781. 
 this is a poor mad, 1782. 
 who taints his, 1836. 
 Souls, great, are submissive, 
 736. 
 that must not be saved, 787. 
 Sound, shadow of a, 430. 
 Sovereigns, animosities of, are 
 
 temporary, 1376. 
 Speck of azure, a little, 111. 
 Speech, aspersion upon parts 
 of 78. 
 has something of song, 
 
 1784. 
 loath to cast away my, 
 
 1787. 
 no, that profits, 1788. 
 that leads not to action, 
 
 1785. 
 the true use of, 1786. 
 Spell, never, a word wrong, 
 
 1789. 
 Spells, she works by, 311. 
 Spider works unconsciously, 
 
 1734. 
 Spirit invincible against affec- 
 tion, 81. 
 is willing, 576. 
 Spirits, good and bad, 1790. 
 Spoils, to the victors belong 
 
 the, 1791. 
 Spring, delights us in the, 1792. 
 Staff of life, bread is the, 167. 
 Stake, following him to the, 
 1163. 
 
 Star, a, for every State, 1794. 
 
 Stars gleam like spirits, 1793. 
 
 State, a, for every star, 1794. 
 
 Statecraft, security the high- 
 est lesson of , 1795. 
 
 Statesmanship, I do not de- 
 preciate, 1796. 
 
 Stocks, gambling with, 652. 
 
 Story, cruel, runs on wheels, 
 1641. 
 
 Streets empty of people, 342. 
 
 Structure of animals, 86. 
 
 Studies serve for delight, 1797. 
 
 Study of the soul, 779. 
 
 Stupidity, against, the gods 
 fight, 1798. 
 is strong, 1798. 
 
 Style gives value to thought, 
 1799. 
 the immortal thing in 
 literature, 1800. 
 
 Subjects are rebels from prin- 
 ciple, 987. 
 
 Sublime, step above the, 
 makes, 1801. 
 
 Submission to rightful author- 
 ity, 1S02. 
 
 Success a great temptation, 
 1806. 
 in, be moderate, 1805. 
 secret of a man's, 1807. 
 sweeter if long delaved, 
 
 1803. 
 the child of audacity, 1804. 
 
 Suffering has its root in, 1808 
 
 Suicide is confession, 1S09. 
 
 Sun, moon beholds the setting, 
 1816. 
 rises upon the Avorld, 1815. 
 which passeth through pol- 
 lutions, 1811. 
 
 Sunbeams out of cucumbers, 
 291. 
 
 Sunday the core of our civili- 
 zation, 1813. 
 the great liberty-day, 1812. 
 
 Sunlight is like the breath of 
 life, 1814. 
 
 Sunne shineth, while the, 775. 
 
 Sunshine, the monotony of, 
 1216. 
 
 Superfluity comes bv white 
 hairs, 1817. 
 
OOb DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Superstition, if modern, dis- 
 turb thee, 1822. 
 in avoiding superstition, 
 
 1819. 
 the master of, 1820. 
 the religion of feeble 
 minds, 1821. 
 
 Superstitions furnished the 
 fancy, 533. 
 
 Surfeit with too much. 427. 
 
 Surgical operation to get a 
 joke into, 972. 
 
 Surrender, unconditional and 
 immediate, 1823. 
 
 Suspicion is often a useless 
 pain, 1825. 
 
 Suspicions that the mind 
 gathers, 1821. 
 
 Swallow, one, maketh not sum- 
 mer, 1810. 
 
 Swearing, jackanapes must 
 take me up for, 1826. 
 
 Syllables, some, are swords, 
 2107. 
 
 Sympathetic people give back 
 reflected images, 1S2S. 
 
 Sympathy, abundance of one- 
 sided, 1830. 
 of sorrow, 1827. 
 we are governed by, 1829. 
 
 Table-talk should be sincere, 
 
 1832. 
 Taciturnity, my prof ound, 1833. 
 Tact, without/can learn noth- 
 ing, 1834. 
 Tale, a plain, 1838. 
 
 that is told, 1837. 
 Tale, which holdeth children 
 
 from play, 1839. 
 Tale-bearers are bad as tale- 
 makers, 718. 
 Talent is that which, 1840. 
 Talk, always two to a, 1850. 
 is only spading up the 
 
 ground, 1844. 
 loves to hear himself, 1847. 
 much in society, 1843. 
 of things heavenly* or 
 
 things earthly, 1852. 
 often, but never long, 267. 
 themselves mad, 1849. 
 to, charming to, 1841, 
 
 Talkativeness produces disas- 
 ters, 1851. 
 Talked, more, about, the less 
 
 powerful, 1284. 
 Talking, he will be, 1848. 
 
 long, begets short hearing, 
 
 1846. 
 seldom repent of, too ]ittle 
 
 1845. 
 the disease of, 1853. 
 Taste cannot be controlled by 
 law, 1856. 
 consists upon fitness, 1855. 
 good, can not supply the, 
 
 1858. 
 is the only morality, 1857, 
 Tavern, a good inn or, 922. 
 
 O miraculous, 1859. 
 Taxed, people to be, by repre- 
 sentatives, 1860. 
 Tea, thank God for, 1861. 
 j Teaching, there is no, 1862. 
 I Teachings, twenty to follow 
 mine own, 1863. 
 Tear precious above the smile, 
 
 1736. 
 Tears, deepest sorrow without, 
 1865. 
 hence were those, 1S68. 
 if you have, prepare to 
 
 shed, 1887. 
 men less inclined to, 1869, 
 sympathizing and selfish 
 "people given to, 1864. 
 upon the cheeks of youth, 
 1866. 
 Temper, fretfulness of, 618. 
 hot, leaps o'er a cold de- 
 cree, 1870. 
 Temper, ill, men are, as much 
 
 given to, as women, 1869. 
 Temperance requisite for hap- 
 piness, 1871. 
 Temptations allure dribbling 
 
 offenders, 408. 
 Temptations, find out what 
 
 your, are, 1872. 
 Tenderness, want of, proof of 
 
 stupidity, 1873. 
 Terror, first lesson that, 1874. 
 Teuton blood in their veins, 
 
 1875. 
 Thanks, I am poor in, 1876. 
 
INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 359 
 
 Theologians, haughty herd of, 
 
 1878. 
 Theology, approved professors 
 
 of, 1878. 
 Thing, an ill-favored, 1450. 
 possessed is not the, 1449. 
 too much of a good, 487. 
 Things above, affections on, 22. 
 new, are more admired, 
 
 1285. 
 salutary, should not be 
 crammed, 1556. 
 Thinker, arrival of *a, in the 
 world, 1879. 
 God lets loose a, 1880. 
 nearer to the source of 
 thought, 1888. 
 Thinkers, shallow and ab- 
 struse, 1881. 
 Thoreau, would have refused 
 
 to notice, 1882. 
 Thorns, crackling of, 1020. 
 Thought is parent of the deed, 
 1886. 
 leads to resignation, 1579. 
 material of, reacts upon 
 
 thought, 1891. 
 no, can be just which, 1885. 
 of Plato becomes a, 1899. 
 one, includes all thought, 
 
 1887. 
 runs before her actions, 
 
 1893. 
 style gives value to, 1799. 
 the process by which 
 
 human ends are, 1894. 
 the property of him who 
 can, 1889. 
 Thoughts, accompanied with 
 noble, 240. 
 are dependent upon lan- 
 guage, 1892. 
 ill, not roll them under 
 
 tongue, 1890. 
 men's, are according to in- 
 clination, 890. 
 Throat, put a knife to thy, 53. 
 Thunder, they steal my, 1895. 
 Tide, he went out with the, 
 
 1896. 
 Time brings forth and devours, 
 1898. 
 do not squander, 1900. 
 
 Time is money, 1897. 
 
 leaves its shadow, 1901. 
 
 restores all things, 477. 
 
 the anodyne, 1904. 
 
 the consoler, 1904. 
 
 the life of the soul, 1902. 
 
 the shadow on the dial, 
 
 1902. 
 the true value of, 1496. 
 whirligig of, 1903. 
 Titles, most enviable of all, 
 
 821. 
 Toad, if you know your, 1905. 
 To-day is worth two to-mor- 
 
 roAvs, 1906. 
 Toil is the sire of fame, 1907. 
 Toleration for Avhat we do not 
 believe, 1908. 
 is an insolent term, 1909. 
 Tomb, hell both sides of the, 
 
 792. 
 To-morrow,boast not of, 150. 
 never leave till, 1486. 
 that is in to-day, 1910. 
 Tones, merry in odd, 112. 
 Tongue, a sparing, 1912. 
 
 keep a guard on your, 1911. 
 words without a,' 430. 
 Tools, jesting with edge, 1913. 
 Trade is a social act, 1914. 
 Tradition, effigies and splen- 
 dors of, 1915. 
 Traitor, an arrant, 1917. 
 Tranquillity is the summum 
 bonum of old age, 1312. 
 of mind depends, 1918. 
 Translations, something lost 
 
 in all, 1919. 
 Translator, like his author, 
 
 1920. 
 Travel is a part of education, 
 1922. 
 is a part of experience, 
 1922. 
 Traveller, every, has a homo, 
 
 1923. 
 Travellers must be content, 
 
 1924. 
 Travelling, good to teach a 
 man to". 951. 
 is no fool's errand, 1921. 
 Treachery, silence of a friend 
 amounts to, SSo, 
 
360 DICTIONAJEY 
 
 OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Treason, fellowship in, 1925. 
 if this he, make the most. 
 
 1926. 
 they cannot commit, 2G9. 
 Tree of liberty. 1043. 
 
 when we plant a. 1928. 
 Trees assume an air of an- 
 guish, 1929. 
 Tribunals composed of Jaco- 
 bins, 954. 
 Tribute, not one cent for. 1930. 
 Trick is a mean thing, 1931. 
 when in doubt, win the. 
 
 399 
 worth two of that, 1932. 
 Tricks are the practice of 
 
 fools, 587. 
 Trifles, busy themselves about 
 ridiculous, 1933. 
 must not stand upon. 1934 
 Trouble, wavs in which 
 
 pie take, 1935. 
 Troubles which have come up- 
 on us, 1936. 
 Trust men, they will be true, 
 254. 
 that man in nothing, 258. 
 Truth always found where 
 honestly sought, 1946. 
 as harsh as. 7" 
 childhood often holds a, 
 
 1951. 
 illuminates, 1939. 
 imxjossible to be soiled bv, 
 
 1950. 
 is always present, 1943. 
 is the strongest argument, 
 63. 
 
 ai, is divine, 1949. 
 nothing is bo gran $,1947 
 of importance only ae 
 rejoices to come to the 
 
 light, 1944. 
 that fired the soul of Pin- 
 dar, 1899. 
 the genuine essence of, 
 
 1941. 
 the triumphs of, 1942. 
 the vantage-ground or 
 the, which makes free, 
 
 1938. 
 to love, for truth's sake. 
 1948. 
 
 Tyranny, bad laws the worst 
 
 ":. -r^-ins v.-"_-rr-r '.:-,.'-■■ -^i. .;.. 
 
 no, w despotic as that of 
 
 public opinion, 1953. 
 will above law is, and des- 
 I9GS 
 eign is called a. 
 
 kings, from po_ 
 1966. 
 
 n to, is obedience, 
 1957. 
 
 Ugliness, uglv for the sake o% 
 
 Ultramontane policy, object 
 of, I960. 
 to the, it is incredible, 
 1961. 
 
 Unbelief consists in, 1962. 
 
 rrtainfy, man wanders 
 
 about in, 1963. 
 haritable, how. must it be, 
 
 Tncle let yc ir , kick his heels, 
 
 Understanding, acuteness and 
 subtlety of, 1965. 
 - obliged to find an, 
 1906. 
 Jngodliness, wrath of God 
 
 against, 1967. 
 Union, dishonored fragments 
 : a once glorious, 1972 
 glorious, shall not perish, 
 1968. 
 
 p to the music of 
 the. 1115. 
 liberty and, now and, 
 
 I ". 
 of the States is indisso- 
 luble, 1969. 
 our Federal, 1970. 
 United States of America, 
 must keep an eye on, 
 
 Universe, better ordering of 
 17. 
 from the origin of the, 
 
 ught of God, 1975. 
 
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 fruited attachment., an, 
 
 F the useful, 1980. 
 
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 lies benreen cowardice 
 
 and rashnes? EMI 
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362 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Want makes strife. 771. 
 
 of care does damage. 181. 
 Wants, he who has" fewest. 
 
 2021. 
 War. calculations upset in. 
 17S. 
 educates the senses. 2025. 
 never leaves. 2022. 
 the great acts of. 2020. 
 the whole art of, 2029. 
 will never yield. 2023. 
 Warrior. Autumn comes like 
 
 a. 106. 
 Wars, they shall have. 2027. 
 Washington. America has fur- 
 nished a. 31. 
 Waste makes want. 771. 
 Watches, dictionaries are like. 
 
 355. 
 Way. best, of doing every- 
 thing. 1715. 
 Weak, concessions of the. 555. 
 Weakest goes to the wall. 
 
 515. 
 Weakness, two kinds of. 2090. 
 Wealth is health. " 
 means liberty. 2033. 
 requires the whole heart 
 
 and. 2032. 
 safe use of. without rea- 
 son. 2035. 
 the least gift that God has 
 bestowed. 2034. 
 Wealthy, if you would be. 2031. 
 Wear out. better to. than to 
 
 rust out. 2113. 
 Weather, tedious to talk of the. 
 
 2036. 
 Wedding in the church. 1162. 
 
 is destiny. 346. 
 Weeds have hateful moral 
 
 qualities. 2037. 
 Welcome, and the hostess sav. 
 
 2038. 
 Werling. a yong man's. 310. 
 Westminster Abbey, shape- 
 less ruins. 1091. 
 Whatever is worth doing is. 
 
 1883. 
 Wheat, reasons are as two 
 
 grains of. 194. 
 Wheel of fortune, revolution 
 of. 1722. 
 
 Wicked are alwavs ungrateful. 
 913. 
 cause I's. I is. 2041. 
 Wickedness, the disgrace of, 
 
 2040. 
 Widders are 'ceptions to ev'rv 
 
 rule, 2042. 
 Wife, a constellation of vir- 
 tues, 2144. 
 use circumspection in 
 
 choosing thy. Ill 
 with nine small children, 
 1163. 
 Will, commands its own ac- 
 tions. 1 
 is the rudder. 834. 
 nothing more prt-cious to a 
 
 nian, 204E 
 to live by one man's. 2(46. 
 Wind. God tempers the. 2048. 
 
 the east. 2047. 
 Winds are on the side of the 
 
 ablest navigators. 1262. 
 Wine. good, i? . a 2050. 
 
 good, needs no bush. 2 
 invisible spirit of. 2052. 
 old. to drink. 23. 
 suecoreth mankind. 2049. 
 T\ inter, a thoroughlv honest 
 fellow. 2054." 
 hard, lived through. 2053. 
 Wisdom better than rul 
 2059. 
 c a n n ot be exaggerated, 
 
 2055. 
 God give them. 2060. 
 is justified, i 
 more helpful than. 79S. 
 the only jewel which. 2057. 
 Wise, never thinks never can 
 be. 2065. 
 spirits of the. 235. 
 Wit, lmpless. has his lab: 
 
 has its place in debate, 2065. 
 is more necessarv than 
 
 beauty. 2070. 
 larded with malice. 1145. 
 no. will bear repetition, 
 
 2069. 
 poor enough to be a. 5S6. 
 shines at the expense of, 
 
 11S0. 
 
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 e^ vi ■•>:»>. :3ftS£. 
 too fine a point to your, 
 
 without employineii: 
 
 your. amM^ well, 381 " 
 Wi«>. not only, in myself. 
 
 Woman, allow a, to do as she 
 
 i .v. i ■ 
 
 lurawKng, in a wMe bonse, 
 
 e: ; . ::' -"- ~- : - -'---'•'■■• : -- 7 
 do tou not know I am a, 
 
 either a subject or an 
 
 equal. - ? 
 hurt a, worst. :S*?9. 
 if God made, beautiful. 
 
 is a creature without rea- 
 masterpiece off nature, 
 
 
 to want aeonfidant, 30Q5. 
 whose power is in beauty. 
 
 Women are never inventors, 
 
 fordYe injuries, bu: .' 
 great, belong to h 
 
 - 
 learned, are to be found* 
 
 , what the power off, 
 
 - - " 
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 - 
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 like nimble and ail 
 
 • - - 
 men off I K*. ^^ 
 
 no calamity which, 3096. 
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 364 DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS. 
 
 
 
 World, is the same every- 
 where, 2118. 
 man must learn to despise 
 
 it, 2119. 
 not made for the prosper- 
 ous, 2120. 
 one half of, must sweat, 
 
 905. 
 Puritans gave action to 
 
 the, 8. 
 wagge, let the, 921. 
 will little note, 260. 
 World's admiration of its own 
 
 charities, 1684. 
 "Worry is rust upon the blade, 
 
 2122. 
 Worship the source of intel- 
 lect, 2124. 
 Worships, man always, some- 
 thing, 2123. 
 Wounds, bind up the nation's, 
 
 205. 
 Writers better be sent to the 
 spider, 1734. 
 influence of , on public 
 mind, 101. 
 Writing makes an exact man, 
 
 253. 
 Wrong, a remedy for every, 
 246. 
 better to suffer, than to do, 
 2125. 
 
 2189 
 
 Wrongs are often forgiven, 
 263. 
 
 Xanthippe, Socrates being- 
 asked how he could live 
 with, 2126. 
 
 Years of man, provision for 
 
 the last, 592. 
 Youth a continual intoxica- 
 tion, 2128. 
 but once, 2129. 
 Youth, feeling of eternity in, 
 2127. 
 if, be a defect, 2130. 
 salt of our, 2131. 
 
 Zeal, attended with knowl- 
 edge, 2138. 
 
 becomes the greatest 
 scourge of humanity, 
 2137. 
 
 hopes of, not groundless, 
 2135. 
 
 if, Avere true and genuine, 
 2132. 
 
 is called, 2136. 
 
 is either pride or, 2133. 
 
 men, deceive themselves, 
 than in, 2134. 
 Zeno first started the doctrine, 
 
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