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

Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice. 5 A princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller.

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant.

Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen—Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.

Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set. Emerson.

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. Lavater.

Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes 10 them. Joubert.

Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything. Emerson.

Genius borrows nobly. Emerson.

Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida.