C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Laboulaye

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

Patience—in patience there is safety.

Patience—with patience everything comes in due season.

Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds.

The desert is mute, and dead men tell no tales.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

Truth is like a pearl: he alone possesses it who has plunged into the depths of life and torn his hands on the rocks of Time.

Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man.