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

He who does not advance falls backward. 5 Amiel.

He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line. Goethe.

He who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; he who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe.

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. Wm. Blake.

He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Goethe.

He who does not lose his wits over certain 10 matters has none to lose. Lessing.

He who does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks. Goethe.

He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. Goethe.

He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world to the extremities of the ocean. Hitopadesa.

He who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day. Carlyle.