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

If truth be with thy friend, be with them both. George Herbert.

If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture, 25 not the soil. Pope.

If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. Pr.

If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous. Spurgeon.

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. Hitopadesa.

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals; but if we hear he has honest morals, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious. Shaftesbury.

If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we 30 are great, we must thank fortune. Bulwer Lytton.

If we bear what we must bear with murmuring and grudging, we do but gall our shoulders with the yoke, and render that a heavy unprofitable load which might be fruitful and glorious. Thomas à Kempis.

If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy. Hen. V., i. 2.

If we cannot help committing errors, we must build none. Goethe.