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 privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like. Marmontel.

The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base. C. H. Parkhurst.

The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists 30 conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. Plato.

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. La Bruyère.

The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Johnson.

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. Spurgeon.

The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. Macchiavelli.

The Promised Land is the land where one is 35 not. Amiel.

The promises of God are yea and amen. Hammond.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course. Michael Angelo.