These studies are our delight. [ Motto ]
By honourable studies and occupations. [ Motto ]
He that studies his content, wants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The higher the studies the fewer the students.
The foremost horseman rides alone. [ E. W ]
Let these be your studies by night and by day.
Indulging in the studies of inglorious leisure. [ Virgil ]
A rival and imitator of his studies and labours. [ Cicero ]
What studies please, what most delight.
And fill men's thoughts, they dream them over at night. [ Creech ]
He shall have enough to do who studies to please fools. [ Proverb ]
Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. [ Bacon ]
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. [ Bacon ]
Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. [ Cicero ]
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. [ Milton ]
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]
Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. [ Bacon ]
He found shelter among books, which insult not, and studies that ask no questions of a youth's finances. [ Lamb ]
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are. [ Colton ]
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. [ Colton ]
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. [ Gibbon ]
'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. [ Massinger ]
Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]
The science of women, as that of men, must be limited according to their powers: the difference of their characters ought to limit that of their studies. [ Fenelon ]
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. [ Bacon ]
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. [ Lavater ]
A people that studies its own past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the courageous champion of right in the hour of need. [ Joseph Anderson ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]
These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. [ Landor ]
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]