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 is life except the knitting up of incoherences into coherence? Carlyle.

What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? Carlyle.

What is man, / If his chief good, and market of his time, / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. Ham., iv. 4.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; 30 but the secret of my friend is not mine! Sir P. Sidney.

What is modesty, if it deserts from truth? Johnson.

What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? Thomas à Kempis.

What is much desired is not believed when it comes. Sp. Pr.

What is my life if I am no longer to be of use to others? Goethe.

What is nearest is often unattainably far off. 35 Goethe.

What is nearest us touches us most. Johnson.