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 too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. Montaigne.

The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. Emerson.

The total loss of reason is less deplorable than 15 the total depravation of it. Cowley.

The training (Bildung) of the thinking, of the dispositions and the morals, is the only education that deserves the name. Herder.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Johnson.

The traveller who goes round the world prepares himself to pass through all latitudes and to meet all changes. Ward Beecher.

The traveller without observation is a bird without wings. Saadi.

The treasures of heaven are not negations of 20 passion but realities of intellect, from which all passions emanate, uncurbed in their eternal glory. Wm. Blake.

The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter. Hitopadesa.

The tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.