C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Mrs. Balfour
A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein.
A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of.
Contagious enthusiasm.
Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminine attractions, born of modesty and love.
Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The colored slave that waits upon thought.
The glow of the angel in woman.
The scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it.
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
Young Crime’s finishing-school.