The moment which is the cradle of the future is also the grave of the past. Grillparzer, The moon doth not withhold the light even from the cottage of a Chandala (outcast). Hitopadesa. The moon that shone in Paradise. Hans Andersen. The moral difference between a man and a beast is, that the one acts primarily for use, and the other for pleasure. Ruskin. 5 The morality of a king is not to be measured by vulgar rules. There are faults which do him honour, and virtues that disgrace him. Junius. The morality of girls is custom, not principle. Jean Paul. The morality of some people is in remnants -never enough to make a coat. Joubert. The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people-the less, indeed, other people can be to him. Schopenhauer. The more a man lives, the more he suffers. Amiel. 10 The more angels the more room. Swedenborg. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economise his time. Judge Hale. The more bustling the streets become, the more quietly one moves. Goethe. The more fair and crystal is the sky, The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Rich. II., i. 1. The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon. Spurgeon. 20 The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue. Molière. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Emerson. The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is. Anon. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul. The more sinful a man feels himself, the more Christian he is. Novalis. 25 The more the soul admires, the more it is exalted. Mme. de Krudener. The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Hazlitt. The more we have read, the more we have learned, the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing. Voltaire. The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in a sandy desert. Coleridge. The more we work, the more we shall be 30 trodden down. Fr. Peasant Pr. The more weakness, the more falsehood; The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Bible. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Emerson. The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a 35 clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. Bovee. The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual The most cursory observation shows that a The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. Goethe. The most difficult thing in life is to know your- 40 self. Thales. The most elevated sensation of music arises from a confused perception of ideal or visionary beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently perceivable to fire the imagination, but not clear enough to become an object of knowledge. James Usher. The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not The most enthusiastic mystics were women. The most essential fact about a man is the The most finished man of the world is he who 15 is never irresolute and never in a hurry. Schopenhauer. The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. J. M. Barrie. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. Goethe. The most learned are often the most narrowminded men. Hazlitt. The most important moment in man's life is certainly not the last. Jean Paul. The most important part of education is right 50 training in the nursery. Plato. The most important period in the life of an individual is that of his development. Later on, commences his conflict with the world, and this is of interest only so far as anything grows out of it. Goethe. The most important thing is to learn to rule one's self. Goethe. The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. Goethe. The most objectionable people are the quibbling investigators and the crotchety theorists; their endeavours are petty and complicated, their hypotheses abstruse and strange. Goethe. 5 The most part of all the misery and mischief, of all that is denominated evil, in the world, arises from the fact that men are too remiss to get a proper knowledge of their aims, and when they do know them, to work intensely in attaining them. Goethe. The most significant feature in the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a great man. Carlyle. The most sorrowful occurrence often, through the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable turn for our happiness; the succession of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined like sleep and waking, neither without the other, and one for the sake of the other. Goethe. The most unhappy and frail of all creatures is man, and yet he is the proudest. Montaigne. The most universal quality is diversity. Mon. taigne. 10 The most virtuous of all men is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato. The mother-grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. Ward Beecher. The mother of the useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. Schopenhauer. The mother's heart is always with her children. Pr. The mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. George Eliot. 15 The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one. Balzac. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Bible. The movement of sound, such as will reach the soul for the education of it in virtue, we call Music. Plato. The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great, that everything must soon be reduced to extracts. Voltaire. The multiplying villanies of nature / Do swarm upon him. Macb., i. 2. 20 The multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. Emerson. The multitude is always in the wrong. Earl of Roscommon. The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Cicero. The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. Mallet. The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal. The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us 25 in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances. Novalis. The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more. Wordsworth. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. Chapin. The mystery of a person is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. Carlyle. The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: democracy is virtually there. The nation is worth nothing which does not 30 Carlyle. joyfully stake its all on its honour. Schiller. The native land of the poet's poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein is he like the eagle. Goethe. The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving The natural qualities pass over all others and mount upon the head. Hitopadesa. The near explains the far. Emerson. The nearer the church the farther from God. Fr. 35 The nearer we approach the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions. Burke. The necessities of my heart always give the cold philosophisings the lie. Burns. The necessities of things are sterner stuff than the hopes of men. Disraeli. The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. S. Lover. The negation of will and desire is the only 40 The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that road to deliverance. Schopenhauer. never blenches, the thought that never wanders-these are the masters of victory. Burke. The nerves, they are the man. Cabanis. The never-absent mop in one hand, and yet no effects of it visible anywhere. Thoreau. The new man is always in a new time, under new conditions; his course is the fac-simile of no prior one, but is by its nature original Carlyle. The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a 45 battle won. Wellington. The night cometh, when no man can work. Jesus. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. St. Paul. The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night. Emerson. The night is long that never finds the day. The night shows stars and women in a better light. Byron. The nobility of life is work. We live in a working world. The lazy and idle man does not count in the plan of campaign. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Let that text be enough. Prof. Blackie, to young men. The object of true religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply in the soul. Leibnitz. The obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Paley. The obscure is what transcends us, and what imposes itself upon us by transcending us. Renan. The noble character at certain moments may resign himself to his emotions; the well-The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, / bred, never. Goethe. The noble ones who have lived among us have not left us; they only truly came to us when they departed, and they were then first kissed by us into immortality. Ed. 5 The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the slower it is in attaining maturity. Schopen hauer. The nobler the virtue is, the more eager and generous resolution do thou express of attaining to it. Thomas à Kempis. The noblest charms of music, though real and affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be collected into a distinct idea. Harmony is always understood by the crowd, and almost always mistaken by musicians. James Usher. The noblest mind the best contentment hath. Spenser. The noblest vengeance is to forgive. Pr. 10 The noblest works and foundations have pro: ceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Bacon. The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Bible. The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy Land, And beyond is the bosom of God. Lord Lytton. The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. Fris. Pr. The oak first announces itself when, with farsounding crash, it falls. Carlyle. 15 The object of all true policy and true economy is, the utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground. Ruskin. The object of art is to crystallise emotion into thought and then to fix it in form. Delsarte. The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith. The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written. John Morley. The object of the poet is, and must be, to "instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing this man and that man; only by pleasing man, by speaking to the pure nature of man, can any real "instruction," in this sense, be conveyed. Carlyle. 20 The object of the politician is expediency. and his duty is to adapt his measures to the often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating conception of the nation. The object, on the other hand, of the philosopher is truth, and his duty is to push every principle which he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences, regardless of the results that may follow. H. Lecky. The stormy passion of its mighty heart. L. C. Moulton. The ocean may have bounds. Hitopadesa. The offender never pardons. George Herbert. The old fox is caught at last. Pr. The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but the great blue dome that hangs over all is better than any Cologne one. Carlyle. The old never dies till this happen, till all the soul of good that was in it get itself transfused into the practical new. Carlyle. 25 The old order changeth, yielding place to 30 new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Tennyson. The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while among us prose is invariably written for the eye alone. Niebuhr. The older we get the more we must limit ourselves, if we wish to be active. Goethe. The oldest, and indeed only true, order of nobility known under the stars, is that of just men and sons of God, in opposition to unjust men and sons of Belial, which latter indeed are second oldest, and yet a very unvenerable order. Carlyle. The oldest in years is not always the most experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best manners. Bodenstedt. The one enemy we have in this universe is 35 stupidity, darkness of mind; of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Carlyle. The one essential point (in regard to a wrong) is to know that it is wrong; how to get out of it you can decide afterwards at your leisure. Ruskin. The one exclusive sign of a thorough know. The one prudence in life is concentration. The one thing of value in the world is the 40 active soul. Emerson. The one unhappiness of a man is that he cannot work, that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled. Carlyle. The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. Mrs. Jamieson. The only disadvantage of an honest heart is its credulity. Sir P. Sidney. The only evolution of any really human interest, and worthy of any human regard, is the evolution that springs from resolution and the birth of freedom in the self-conscious soul. Ed. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot. The only faith that wears well, and holds its colour in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Lowell. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Locke. The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of this, or impede their efforts to obtain it. J. S. Mill. 5 The only genuine Romance for grown persons is Reality. Carlyle. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Emerson. The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work done. Carlyle. The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order. Burke. The only means of overcoming adversities is a fresh activity. Goethe. 10 The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. Jean Paul. The only ornament of old age is virtue. Amyot. The only poetry is history, could we tell it aright. Carlyle. The only point now is what a man weighs in the scale of humanity; all the rest is nought. A coat with a star, and a chariot with six horses, at all events, imposes on the rudest multitude only, and scarcely that. Goethe. The only progress which is really effective depends, not upon the bounty of Nature, but upon the energy of man. Buckle. 15 The only satisfaction of the will is that it encounters with no resistance. Schopenhauer, The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals. J. S. Mill. The only serious and formidable thing in Nature is will. Emerson. The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. Emerson. The only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. Degerando. 20 The only substance properly so called is the soul. Amiel. The only teller of news is the poet. Emerson. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. Emerson. The only true principle for humanity is justice. Amiel. The only true source of politeness is consideration. Simms. 25 The only victory over love is flight. Napoleon. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson. The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. Ruskin. The opinions of men are as many and as different as their persons; the greatest diligence and most prudent conduct can never please them all. Thomas à Kempis. The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. Voltaire. The ordinary man places life's happiness in 30 things external to him; his centre of gravity is not in himself. Schopenhauer. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Emerson. The outer passes away; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Carlyle. The over-curious are not over-wise. Massinger. The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. Pr. The owl sees the sunshine and winks in its 35 nest. Dr. Walter Smith. The ox lies still while the geese are hissing. Pr. The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison with that of repentance; for the one stands in presence of the vast open future, whilst the other has the irrevocable past closed behind it. Schopenhauer, The pain that any one actually feels is still of all others the worst. Locke. The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith. The pains of power are real, its pleasures are 40 imaginary. Colton. The painful warrior famousèd for fight,/ After a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the books of honour razèd quite, / And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Shakespeare. The painter should grind his own colours: the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain. Ruskin. The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant. Brougham, The parcel of books, if they are well chosen, .. awakens within us the diviner mind, and rouses us to a consciousness of what is best in others and ourselves. John Morley. The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit 45 conferred, put the offender under an obligation; and thus direct advantage at once accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head. Goethe. The particular is the universal seen under special limitations. Goethe. The passions are only exaggerated vices or virtues. Goethe. The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade. La Roche, The passions, by grace of the supernal and also of the infernal powers (for both have a hand in it), can never fail us. Carlyle. The passions may be likened to blood horses, 50 that need training and the curb only to enable them when they carry to achieve most glorious triumphs. Simms. The passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn; but none without their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin. The path of nature is indeed a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it. and, when they find it, they do not find themselves cramped therein. Lowell. 10 The path of sorrow, and that path alone, / Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Cowper. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Bible. The path of things is silent. Emerson. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray. The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. Gibbon. 15 The peace of heaven is theirs who lift their swords / In such a just and charitable war. King John, ii. 1. The peacemakers shall be called the children of God. Jesus. The peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means, are for ever unhappy. Hitopadesa. The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer Lytton. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Bacon. 20 The people have the right to murmur, but they have also the right to be violent, and their silence is the lesson of kings. Jean de Beauvais. The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Disraeli. The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Hitopadesa. The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people. Heine. The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul only when all self-seeking is abandoned. John Burroughs. 25 The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quinct. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Eolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. Burke. The perfection of spiritual virtue lies in being always all there, a whole man present in every movement and moment. Ed. The period of faith must alternate with the period of denial; the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations must be followed by, and again follow, the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution. Carlyle. The persistent aspirations of the human race are to society what the compass is to the ship. It sees not the shore, but it guides to it. Lamartine. The person who in company should pretend 30 to be wiser than others, I am apt to regard as illiterate and ill-bred. Goldsmith. The person who is contented to be often obliged ought not to be obliged at all. Goldsmith. The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who were found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose. Goldsmith. The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. Emerson. The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. Carlyle. The philosopher must station himself in the 35 middle. Goethe. The philosophy of grumbling is great, but not intricate... the proof that there is something wrong, and that a sentient human being is aware of it. John Wagstaffe. The philosophy of one century is the commonsense of the next. Ward Beecher. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. Emerson. The phoenix, Hope, can wing her flight Through the vast deserts of the skies, And still defying fortune's spite, Revive and from her ashes rise. Cervantes. The pillow is a dumb sibyl. Gracian. The pilot of the Galilean lake;/Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / The golden opes, the iron shuts amain. Milton. The pious and just honouring of ourselves may be thought the radical moisture and fountain-head from whence every laudable and Milton. worthy enterprise issues forth. The pious have always a more intimate connection with each other than the wicked, though externally the relationship may not always prosper as well. Goethe. The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods; and by men honoured and worshipped as divinities, when once they have by death stripped off for ever their week day gar. ments. Ed. after Ovid. 40 The pitcher goes so often to the water that it 45 comes home broken at last. Pr. The place once trodden by a good man is hallowed. After a hundred years his word and actions ring in the ears of his descendants. Goethe. The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear. Lord Halifax. |