"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to 30 Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the reply. The Emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word." Abbott.
What is writ is writ. Byron.
What joy a self-sufficing fortune yields, / Such modest livelihood is dear to me. The wise old maxim, "Not too much," / Too much has power my heart to touch. Alpheus of Mitylene.
What life only half imparts to man, posterity shall give entirely. Goethe.
What love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
What love hides is raised as from the dead / 35 Some day, and kills the love which covered it, / And frankest truth is more than subtle wit. Dr. Walter Smith.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? / About two hundred pounds a year. / And that which was prov'd true before / Prove false again, two hundred more. Butler.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot.
What makes lovers never tire of each others' society is that they talk always about themselves. La Roche.
What makes many so discontented with their own condition is the absurd estimate they form of the happiness of others. Fr. (?)