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

Niemand weiss, wie weit seine Kräfte gehen, 30 bis er sie versucht hat—No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried them. Goethe.

Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.

Night is a good herdsman; she brings all creatures home. Gael. Pr.

Night is the mither (mother) o' thoughts. Sc. Pr.

Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind. Butler.

Night! that great shadow and profile of the 35 day. Jean Paul.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm, / That soothes the wearied mind; / The labour'd day's restoring balm, / The comfort of mankind. Leigh Hunt.

Nightingales will not sing in a cage. Pr.

Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet—Nothing is void of God; His work everywhere is full of Himself. Sen.