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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Pr.

There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. Disraeli.

There is music in all things, if men had ears. 5 Byron.

There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing unless to live be to know Him by whom we live, and that He is not to be known amidst the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligence which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of the web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Emerson.

There is never but one opportunity of a kind. Thoreau.

There is no better counsellor than time. Pr.

There is no better sign of a brave mind than a 10 hard hand. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2.

There is no better type of a perfectly free creature than the common house-fly. Ruskin.

There is no bridge from one being to another, each is a self, each rests on itself, and wills only itself, knows only itself, understands only itself. Hamerling.