The noblest works and foundations have proceeded 10 from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Bacon.
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Bible.
The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy Land, / And beyond is the bosom of God. Lord Lytton.
The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. Fris. Pr.
The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls. Carlyle.
The object of all true policy and true economy 15 is, the utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground. Ruskin.
The object of art is to crystallise emotion into thought and then to fix it in form. Delsarte.
The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith.
The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written. John Morley.
The object of the poet is, and must be, to "instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing this man and that man; only by pleasing man, by speaking to the pure nature of man, can any real "instruction," in this sense, be conveyed. Carlyle.