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

The best courages are but beams of the Almighty. Mrs. Hutchinson.

The best effect of any book is that it excites 35 the reader to self-activity. Carlyle.

The best fish swim near the bottom. Pr.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes. Sterne.

The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and most men mistake the bad for the good. Gellert.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.

The best independence is to have something to 40 do, and something that can be done, and done most perfectly in solitude. P. G. Hamerton.

The best is best cheap. Pr.

The best is but in season best. Allan Ramsay.

The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.