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 power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. Emerson.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Carlyle.

There is properly but one slavery in the world—the slavery of wisdom to folly. Carlyle.

There is properly no history, only biography. Emerson.

There is, properly speaking, no misfortune in 25 the world. Happiness and misfortune stand in continual balance. Every misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts forth with the greater force. Novalis.

There is really something absurd about the Present; all that people think of is the sight, the touch of each other, and there they rest; but it never occurs to them to reflect upon what is to be gained from such moments. Goethe.

There is safety in solitude. Saadi.

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure, but security enough to make fellowships accursed. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

There is scarcely a good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons. Bulwer Lytton.

There is sentiment in all women, and sentiment 30 gives delicacy to thought, and tact to manner. But sentiment with men is generally acquired, an offspring of the intellectual quality, not, as with the other sex, of the moral. Bulwer Lytton.