Little Classics — Literary Quotations

1900

To the pure all things are pure. — Shelley.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. — Emerson.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. — Thackeray.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream. — Wendell Phillips.

Children have more need of models than of critics. — Joubert.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not. — Emerson.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. — Auberbach.

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making. — Addison.

Show me a thoroughly contented person and I will show you a useless one. — H. W. Shaw.

Drive prejudices out by the door, they will re-enter by the window. — Frederick the Great.

Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards. — John Burroughs.

Teach thy necessity to reason thus: There is no virtue like necessity. — Richard II.

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, and knows no disappointment. — George Eliot.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. — Lowell.

But, in spite of all the criticizing elves, those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. — Churchill.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other. — Bacon.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. — Saint-Foix.