On the field of foughten battle still,
Woe knows no limits save the victor's will. [ The Gaulliad ]

In the matter of courage we all have our limits. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

The human mind will not be confined to any limits. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none. [ A. A. Procter ]

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits. [ Madame Swetchine ]

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. [ Froude ]

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. [ William Shakespeare ]

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one cannot give it limits. [ Mme. Necker ]

Frugality is founded upon the principle, that all riches have limits. [ Burke ]

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. [ Seneca ]

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. [ Shelley ]

A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe limits for its own exertions. [ Brougham ]

Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. [ Lavater ]

Life is long enough for him who knows how to use it. Working and thinking extend its limits. [ Voltaire ]

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. [ Paley ]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]

There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. [ Horace ]

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]