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 finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. Montaigne.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Pope.

The finest nations in the world—the English and the American—are going all away into wind and tongue. Carlyle.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the 45 bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling; yet we do not treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly. Thoreau.

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. Pr.

The fire that all things else consumeth clean / May hurt and heal. Sir Thomas Wyatt.

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. Pr.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Amiel.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Bailey.

The first approach to riches is security from poverty. Johnson.