C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Trench
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
It was Lazarus’ faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham’s bosom.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which unless fixed and arrested might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning.
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.
The love of our own language, what is it in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.
The sin of pride is the sin of sins, in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.
We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.