How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Bible.
How much better it is to weep at joy than to 5 joy at weeping! Much Ado, i. 4.
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Junius.
How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. Carlyle.
How much the wife is dearer than the bride! Lyttelton.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. Jean Paul.
How noble is heroic insight without words in 10 comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight! Carlyle.
How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will. Carlyle.
How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want! Spenser.
How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.