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

Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. Thomas à Kempis.

Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. La Roche.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. La Roche.

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. Jeremy Collier.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. Confucius.

Humility, that low, sweet root / From which 5 all heavenly virtues shoot. Moore.

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. Carlyle.

Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.

Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not. Coleridge.