| Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. |
| —Quotations, No. 31 |
| Samuel Johnson |
Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical
Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, etc. Selected from the Standard Authors of Ancient and Modern Times
Compiled by Charles Noel Douglas
These 41,480 selections divided into 1,500 categories include thousands of authors and an entire volume’s-worth of Shakespeare.
Contents
NEW YORK: HALCYON HOUSE, 1917
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012
| Category Index | ||
| Ability | to | Zephyrs |
| Featured Entries | ||
| Action, Age, Ambition, Art, Authorship, Beauty, Bible, Books, Character, Charity, Children, Conscience, Courage, Death, Duty, Education, Eyes, Faith, Fame, Fear, Fortune, Freedom, Friends, Friendship, Genius, God, Goodness, Government, Greatness, Grief, Happiness, Life, Love, Man, Matrimony, Music, Nature, Poverty, Prayer, Pride, Proverbs, Reading, Reason, Religion, Riches, Silence, Sin, Sleep, Solitude, Sorrow, Soul, Style, Sympathy, Tears, Thought, Time, Truth, Vanity, Virtue, War, Wisdom, Wit, Woman | ||
| Primary Author Index | ||
| J, Q. Adams | to | Zoroaster |
| Featured Entries | ||
| Addison, Bacon, Beecher, Bible, E.B. Browning, Bryant, Bulwer-Lytton, Burke, Burns, Byron, Carlyle, Cicero, Coleridge, Colton, Cowper, Deluzy, de Sévigné, Dryden, George Eliot, Emerson, Franklin, Goethe, Goldsmith, Hazlitt, Holmes, Horace, Johnson, B. Jonson, Joubert, La Bruyère, La Rochefoucauld, Longfellow, Lowell, Milton, Montaigne, Moore, H. More, Necker, Pascal, Pope, Richter, Ruskin, Schiller, Scott, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shelley, P. Sidney, Spenser, Steele, Swetchine, Swift, Tennyson, Thomson, Whittier, Wordsworth, Young | ||