119. Adelaide A. Proctor. 120. G. L. Banks. 123. George Herbert. 121. Gibbons-Where Jesus dwelt. 125. Thos. Parnell. 122. Edward Young. 126. Francis Ridley Havergal. 1. A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books. 2. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 3. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue? 4. Common sense is called common, by common consent, but it is the scarcest commodity in market. 5. Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. 6. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. 7. There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. 8. Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. 9. Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notions of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. 10. I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown-for qualities that would wear. 11. In every parting there is an image of death. 12. He had a face like a benediction. 13. I have been for fourteen years the innkeeper of Europe. 14. One on God's side is a majority. 15. Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. 16. The twin relics of Barbarism-Slavery and Polygamy. 17. If you like the terms of the loan, down with the dust. 18. Society is divided into two classes, the fleecers and the fleeced. 19. Common sense is the genius of our age. 20. That of my individual responsibility to God. 21. All men have their price. 22. With malice towards none, with charity for all. 23. Too much plenty makes mouth dainty. 24. If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. 25. He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. 26. All would live long, but none would be old. 27. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. 28. The crime makes the shame, not the scaffold. 29. Put your trust in God, but mind to keep your powder dry. 30. It is better to wear out than to rust out. 31. No one, but myself, ever did me any harm. 32. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. 33. The older a lamb becomes, the more sheepish he grows. 34. We have had so much mutton, that I am ashamed to look a sheep in the face. 35. There are two sublimities of nature, one of rest (Mount Blanc), the other of motion (Niagara). 36. Man proposes, but God disposes. 37. By robbing Peter, he paid Paul. 38. Knowledge is power. 39. He that is down, need fear no fall. 40. Bread is the staff of life. 41. Necessity is the mother of invention. 42. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise. 43. A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. 44. Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. 45. When unadorned, adorned the most. 46. God helps them that help themselves. 47. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. 48. There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. 49. Give me liberty, or give me death! 50. O liberty! liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! 51. Facts are stubborn things. 52. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. |