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 pleaseth but rare accidents. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. Ben. Franklin.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it. Hazlitt.

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists 25 by nature, but all things become so by habit. Epictetus.

Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage. Spectator.

Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible to him of true joy, but in the righteous love of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws and the glory of God, and in the daily use of the faculties of soul and body with which God has endowed him. Ruskin.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. Amiel.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. Schumann.

Nothing seems important to me but so far as 30 it is connected with morals. Cecil.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy, except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning. Byron.