Though lost to sight, to mem’ry dear.
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Builders who adopt this motto are indebted for it to Young, The Complaint, viii. 215.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Dr. Johnson, according to Boswell, is credited with this phrase.
So much the worse for the facts.
M. Royer Collard disapproved of the opinions of the Fathers of Port Royal on the doctrine of grace: “Ils ont les textes pour eux, disait il, j’en suis faché pour les textes.” So much the worse for the texts,—a very different and much more reasonable saying than the paradoxical expression commonly ascribed to Voltaire.
Conspicuous by its absence.
Earl Russell, in an address to the electors of the city of London, alluding to Lord Derby’s Reform Bill, which had just been defeated, said:—
Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence, and one by its absence.