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

What boots the hero-arm without a hero-eye? Jean Paul.

What built St. Paul's Cathedral? Look at 20 the heart of the matter, it was that divine Hebrew Book, the word partly of the man Moses, an outlaw tending his Midianitish herds four thousand years ago in the wildernesses of Sinai! Carlyle.

What by straight path cannot be reached, / By crooked ways is never won. Goethe.

What can be done, you must do for yourself. Johnson.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? / Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.

What can Fate devise to vanquish Love? Lewis Morris.

What can they see in the longest kingly line 25 in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? Scott.

What can we reason, but from what we know? Pope.

What cannot be abused is good for nothing. Niebuhr.

What cannot be avoided, / 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.