C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Niebuhr
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue; she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
Our age knows nothing but reactions, and leaps from one extreme to another.
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.