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 sanctuary of virtue like home. E. Everett.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right thinking creature, as that of dawn. Ruskin.

There is no solitude in nature. Schiller. 20

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city. So many thousands, and not one friend. Boiste.

There is no spirit without a body unless it be a ghost, and no body without a spirit unless it be a corpse. German lore.

There is no sporting with a fellow-creature's happiness or misery. Burns.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Byron.

There is no stronger test of a man's real 25 character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice. Plutarch.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Lord Bacon.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. Stedman.