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 highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. La Bruyère.

The highest thing that art can do is to set 10 before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being. It has never done more than this, and it might not do less. Ruskin.

The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity; of colder regions, temperance. Bovee.

The highest wisdom is not to be always wise. M. Opiz.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. Bible.

The hind that would be mated by the lion / Must die for love. All's Well, i. 1.

The historian is a prophet with his face directed 15 to the past. Fr. v. Schlegel.

The history of a man is his character. Goethe.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it, but we often treble the force. Sterne.

The history of every man should be a Bible. Novalis.