Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

It is folly to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. Ben. Franklin.

It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the Pope. Pr.

It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. Longfellow.

It is for the sake of him (the virtuous man) and of those like him that the earth exists and maintains itself in being. Renan.

It is for truth that God created genius. Lamartine. 45

It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. La Roche.

It is force and right that determine everything in the world; force till right is ready. Joubert (?).

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. Cic.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo.

It is from the difference we feel between the 50 finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy that all the evils spring which torment humanity. Rousseau.