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

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals. Chapin.

Public instruction should be the first object of government. Napoleon.

Public opinion is a second conscience. W. R. 35 Alger.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Thoreau.

Public opinion is democratic. J. G. Holland.

Public opinion is the mixed result of the intellect of the community acting upon general feeling. Hazlitt.

Publicum bonum privato est præferendum—The public good must be preferred to private. L.

Publicum meritorum præmium—The public reward 40 for public services. M.

Pulchre! bene! recte!—Beautiful! good! correct! Hor.

Pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati—We are but dust and shadows, born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.