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 people who possess firmness can possess 5 true gentleness. La Roche.

Only regard for law can give us freedom. Goethe.

Only so far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life generally. Novalis.

Only such persons interest us, Spartans, Romans, Saracens, English, Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves, and made man victorious. Emerson.

Only suffering draws / The inner heart of song, and can elicit / The perfumes of the soul. Lewis Morris.

Only that good profits which we can taste with 10 all doors open, and which serves all men. Emerson.

Only that is poetry which purifies and mans me. Emerson.

Only the actions of the just / Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Shirley.

Only the idle among the poor revolt against their state; the brave workers die passively, and give no sign. Ruskin.

Only the man of worth can recognise worth in men. Carlyle.