What is often termed shyness is nothing more than refined sense, and an indifference to common observations. (?)
What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events? Emerson.
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Bulwer Lytton.
What is philosophy? An entire separation from the world. Hitopadesa.
What is reason now was passion formerly. Ovid.
What is religion? Compassion for all things 5 that have life. Hitopadesa.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.
What is specially true of love is, that it is a state of extreme impressionability; the lover has more senses and finer senses than others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he reads omens in the flower and cloud and face and form and gesture, and reads them aright. Emerson.
What is strength without a double share / Of wisdom? vast, unwieldy, burdensome, / Proudly secure, yet liable to fall / By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, / But to subserve where wisdom bears command. Milton.
What is the adored Supreme Perfection, say?—/ What, but eternal never-resting soul, / Almighty power, and all-directing day; / By whom each atom stirs, the planets roll; / Who fills, surrounds, informs, and agitates the whole. Thomson.