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 we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. Bovee.

What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. Emerson.

What we do determine oft we break, / Purpose is but the slave to memory. Ham., iii. 2.

What we do not understand we have no business to judge. Amiel.

What we do not use is a heavy burden. 25 Goethe.

What we don't know is just what we need to know; and what we do know we can make no use of. Goethe.

What we foolishly call vastness is not more wonderful or not more impressive than what we insolently call littleness. Ruskin.

What we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes.

What we have we prize not to the worth, / 30 Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.