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

We may almost say that a new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of. Goethe.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Barrow.

We may be pretty certain that persons whom 5 all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. Thackeray.

We may build more splendid habitations, / Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/ But we cannot / Buy with gold the old associations! Longfellow.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. Shenstone.

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. Baron Wessenberg.

We may fall in with a thousand learned men before we fall in with one wise. Klinger.

We may give more offence by our silence than 10 even by impertinence. Hazlitt.

We may grasp virtue so hard as to convert it into a vice. Montaigne.

We may have a law, or we may have no law, but we cannot have half a law. Johnson.