When we build (public edifices), let us think that we build for ever. Ruskin.
When we cannot get at the very thing we wish, never to take up with the next best in degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description. Sterne.
When we can't do as we would, we must do as we can. Pr.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Mme. de Staël.
When we discern justice, when we discern 35 truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow a passage to its beams. Emerson.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. Emerson.
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. Bussy-Rabutin.
When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. Pascal.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes. King Lear, iii. 6.
When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect 40 widens, the objects of our regard become more obscure, and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.