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

To fill the hour, that is happiness. Emerson.

To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him. Schopenhauer.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Pascal.

To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him. Goethe.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge. It. Pr. 30

To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience. Schopenhauer.

To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling. Goethe.

To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away. Schopenhauer.

To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well. Goethe.

To gather riches do not hazard health; / For, 35 truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth. Sir Richard Baker.