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

Nothing is more certain than that great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. Lowell.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than his behaviour towards fools. Amiel.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Johnson.

Nothing is more common than to express exceeding 15 zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while at the same time we neglect the beginning at home. Thomas à Kempis.

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes. Emerson.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves. Emerson.

Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by borrowing. Johnson.

Nothing is more free than the imagination of man. Hume.

Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an 20 old error. Goethe.

Nothing is more natural than that we should grow giddy at a great sight which comes unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at once our littleness and our greatness. But there is not in the world any truer enjoyment than at the moment when we are thus made giddy for the first time. Goethe.