We tell the ladies that good wives make good husbands; I believe it is a more certain position that good brothers make good sisters. Johnson.
We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, / And pass the tropics, and behold each pole; / When we come home, are to ourselves unknown, / And unacquainted still with our own soul. Davies.
We think our civilisation near its meridian; but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. Emerson.
We tolerate everybody, because we doubt 25 everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. Mrs. E. B. Browning.
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; / Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. R. Southwell.
We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions. Ruskin.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Corn.
We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. Bovee.
We underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives? Thoreau.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. Joubert.