The poorer life or the rich one are but the larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters in which we write the apophthegms and golden sayings of life. Carlyle.
The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. Carlyle.
The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes, 30 and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all. Carlyle.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter! all his force dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement. Chatham.
The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Quarles.
The popular man stands on our own level, or a hairsbreadth higher; and shows us a truth we can see without shifting our present intellectual position. The original man stands above us, and wishes to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level. Carlyle.
The population of the world is a conditional population; not the best, but the best that could live now. Emerson.
The post of honour is the post of difficulty, 35 the post of danger,—of death, if difficulty be not overcome. Carlyle.
The power of every great people, as of every living tree, depends on its not effacing, but confirming and concluding the labours of its ancestors. Ruskin.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Hare.