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

A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days. Goethe.

A word once vulgarised can never be rehabilitated. Lowell.

A word sooner wounds than heals. Goethe.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. Carlyle.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it? 20 Bible.

A work of real merit finds favour at last. A. B. Alcott.

A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be—cannot help being. Carlyle.

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Emerson.

A world this in which much is to be done, and little to be known. Goethe.

A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make 25 the best declaimer against sin. Lamb.