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

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything; 60 makes everything vulgar, and every truth false. Amiel.

Materiem, qua sis ingeniosus, habes—You have a subject on which to show your ingenuity. Ovid.

Materiem superabat opus—The workmanship surpassed the material. Ovid.

Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence. Wm. Blake.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null. Goethe.

[Greek: mathousin audô, kou mathousi lêthomai]—I speak to experts; those who are not I ignore. Æsch.

Matinée—A morning recital or performance. 5 Fr.

Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Heine.

Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth. Carlyle.

Matter, were it never so despicable, is spirit, the manifestation of spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more? Carlyle.