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

Reader, attend—whether thy soul / Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, / Or darkling grubs this earthly hole / In low pursuit; / Know, prudent, cautious self-control / Is wisdom's root. Burns.

Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust, / Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must. Henry Marten.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the 5 dewy grass at sunrise. Lowell.

Reading furnishes us only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. Locke.

Reading for the sense (in Shakespeare's plays) will best bring out the rhythm. Emerson.

Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own. Schopenhauer.

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon.

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not 10 exercise. Bulwer Lytton.

Real action is in silent moments. Emerson.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. Fénelon.