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

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. Lucrece.

"My hand," said Napoleon, "is immediately connected with my head," but the sacred courage is connected with the heart. Emerson.

My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began, / So is it now I am a man; / So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die. Wordsworth.

My heart is true as steel. Mid. N. Dream, 50 ii. 2.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow; / And many a beautiful pearl / Lies hid in its depths below. Heine.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here. Burns.

My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. Kepler.

My house is my castle. Pr.

My house, my house, though thou art small, / Thou art to me the Escurial. Pr.

"My ideal of a society is one in which I would 5 be guillotined as a Conservative." Proudhon, to Prince Napoleon.