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

Only great souls know the grandeur there is 50 in charity. Bossuet.

Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations. Thoreau.

Only he deserves freedom who has day by day to fight for it. Goethe.

Only he helps who unites with many at the proper hour; a single individual helps not. Goethe.

Only I discern / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn. Browning.

Only in complicated critical cases do men find 55 out what is within them. Goethe.

Only in looking heavenward, take it in what sense you may, not in looking earthward, does what we call union, mutual love, society, begin to be possible. Carlyle.

Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty. As You Like It, i. 2.

Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you. Goethe.

Only lofty character is worth describing at all. Ruskin.