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 the use of health or of life, if not to 20 do some work therewith? Carlyle.

What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste? Hawthorne.

What is there good in us if it is not the power and inclination to appropriate to ourselves the resources of the outward world, and to make them subservient to our higher ends? Goethe.

What! is there no bribing death? Last words of Cardinal Beaufort.

What is this day's strong suggestion? / "The passing moment's all we rest on!" Burns.

What is this life of ours? Gone in a moment, 25 burnt up like a scroll, into the blank eternity. Carlyle interpreting young Luther's reflexion on the sudden death by his side of his friend Alexis.

What is too great a load for those who have strength? Hitopadesa.

What is truth? Pilate scoffingly to Jesus.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. Johnson.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. D. Webster.