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 no brotherhood possible, at any rate stable, between man and man but a brotherhood of labour. Ed.

There is no cause why one man's nose is longer than another's, but because that God pleases to have it so. Sterne.

There is no class of men so difficult to be 15 managed in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. Napoleon.

There is no communion possible among men who believe only in hearsays. Carlyle.

There is no contingency, and what to us seems only blind chance is an efflux from the depths of being. Schiller.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. Southern.

There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. W. Winter.

There is no darkness but ignorance. Twelfth 20 Night, iv. 2.

There is no darkness unto the conscience, which can see without light. Sir T. Browne.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. Sir P. Sidney.