Time flees away
Without delay. [ Proverb ]

Truth without fear. [ Motto ]

No joy without alloy. [ Proverb ]

Wise without learning. [ Horace ]

No corn without chaff. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Love rules without law. [ Italian Proverb ]

No gains without pains. [ Proverb ]

A face without a heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

Loss without injustice. [ Law ]

No pear without a stalk. [ Proverb ]

No flying without wings. [ Proverb ]

Without God in the world. [ St. Paul ]

Liberty is without price. [ Lofft ]

Fools are without number. [ Erasmus ]

No rose without a prickle. [ Proverb ]

Without money all is vain.

From within. From without.

No sweetness without sweat. [ Spanish Proverb ]

No smoke without some fire. [ Proverb ]

Love reasons without reason. [ Shakespeare ]

What's a table richly spread
Without a woman at its head? [ T. Wharton ]

Day is the Child of Time,
And Day must cease to be:
But Night is without a sire,
And cannot expire.
One with Eternity. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

No garden without its weeds. [ Proverb ]

No sweet without some sweat. [ Proverb ]

Fools grow without watering. [ Proverb ]

He can swim without bladders. [ Proverb ]

Folly grows without watering. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Without business, debauchery. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Stupidity is without anxiety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Without me ye can do nothing. [ Jesus to his disciples ]

He that loves glass without G,
Take away L and that is he. [ Proverb ]

No happiness without holiness. [ Proverb ]

Find you without excuse,
And find a hare without a muse. [ Proverb ]

Let my honour be without stain. [ Motto ]

There is no day without sorrow. [ Seneca ]

Beauty without expression tires. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Zeal without prudence is frenzy. [ Proverb ]

Love's reason is without reason. [ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc, 2 ]

A world - without - end bargain. [ Shakespeare ]

God comes to see without a bell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The wide world is all before us -
But a world without a friend. [ Burns ]

Beauty without virtue is a curse. [ Proverb ]

What is a work-man without tools? [ Proverb ]

No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty - jealousy. [ Lord Lytton ]

Natural things are without shame.

Without wonder there is no faith. [ Jean Paul ]

Never the rose without the thorn. [ Robert Herrick ]

There are no roses without thorns. [ Proverb ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What is an army without a general? [ Proverb ]

A picture is a poem without words. [ Horace ]

Ugliness without tact is horrible. [ Hawthorne ]

A fool can dance without a fiddle. [ Proverb ]

Bribes will enter without knocking. [ Proverb ]

Vices are learned without a Master. [ Proverb ]

A task, or work, without a blemish. [ Motto ]

No good workman without good tools. [ Proverb ]

Liberty, without wisdom, is license. [ Burke ]

Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched without impediment. [ William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 5, Sc. 2 ]

My equal he will be again
Down in that cold oblivious gloom,
Where all the prostrate ranks of men
Crowd without fellowship, the tomb. [ J. Montgomery ]

No evil is without its compensation. [ Seneca ]

Even pleasure cloys without variety. [ Ovid ]

Coquetry is love without conscience. [ Mathieu Mote ]

Without enthusiasm there is no zeal. [ J. Ellis ]

All saint without, all devil within. [ Proverb ]

A wise man may be kind without cost. [ Proverb ]

There is no life without friendship. [ Cicero ]

The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls.
Blessing all lands with its charity. [ Emerson ]

A feeble dart thrown without effect. [ Virgil ]

No day is without its innocent hope. [ Ruskin ]

There is no moment without some duty. [ Cicero ]

Valour is brutish without discretion. [ Proverb ]

A man without money is no man at all. [ Proverb ]

Service without reward is punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Justice without wisdom is impossible. [ Froude ]

Nothing is achieved without solitude. [ Lacordaire ]

You never do it without overdoing it. [ Proverb ]

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head. [ Watts ]

I will make him dance without a pipe. [ Proverb ]

Health without money is half an ague. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Friendship is love without its wings. [ Byron ]

There is no true action without will. [ Rousseau ]

Without passion there is no geniality. [ Mommsen ]

Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Without great men nothing can be done. [ Renan ]

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitants, to ruin runs. [ Young ]

There is no true love without jealousy. [ Proverb ]

None have lived without shedding tears. [ Voltaire ]

One mouth doth nothing without another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Perfect love canna be without equality. [ Scotch Proverb ]

No intellectual images are without use. [ Johnson ]

He sailed into Cornwall without a bark. [ Proverb ]

Wit without an employment is a disease. [ Burton ]

Life is less than nothing without love. [ Bailey ]

Courage without fortune destroys a man. [ Proverb ]

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Learning without thought is labor lost. [ Confucius ]

Life without laughing is a dreary blank. [ Thackeray ]

Gifts enter everywhere without a wimble. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Without any restriction (at discretion). [ French ]

Talent without tact is only half talent. [ Horace Greeley ]

No autumn fruit without spring blossoms. [ Proverb ]

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name. [ Scott ]

Without the meed of some melodious tear. [ Milton ]

He could even eat my heart without salt. [ Proverb ]

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease. [ Rousseau ]

Youth without faith is a day without sun. [ Ouida ]

Health without wealth is half a sickness. [ Proverb ]

The revenge of an idiot is without mercy. [ Proverb ]

It is liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers
Of fleeting life their luster and perfume.
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

Religion without joy, - it is no religion. [ Theodore Parker ]

If you are born without taste, acquire it.

To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare ]

Without love, it would be sad to be a man. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

Better be without food than without honour. [ Italian Proverb ]

No faith has triumphed without its martyrs. [ E. de Girardin ]

Keeps mankind sweet by action; without that
The world would be a filthy settled mud. [ Crown ]

'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]

Good blood makes poor pudding without suet. [ Proverb ]

There is no true holiness without humility. [ Proverb ]

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Without an helm or pilot her to sway;
Full sad and dreadful is that ship's event,
So is the man that wants intendiment. [ Spenser ]

Time steals away without any inconvenience. [ Montaigne ]

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of day. [ Milton ]

Force without fore-cast is of little avail. [ Proverb ]

Without kindness, there can be no true joy. [ Carlyle ]

Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]

No good building without a good foundation. [ Proverb ]

Good nature without prudence is foolishness. [ Proverb ]

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]

Soft without weakness; without glaring, gay. [ Pope ]

There is no usual rule without an exception. [ Proverb ]

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. [ Armstrong ]

Women as a sex are Sphinxes without secrets. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. [ Proverb ]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

He that lives in hope danceth without music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No day passes without something we wish not. [ Proverb ]

Genius is nourished from within and without. [ Willmott ]

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without -
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read. [ J. G. Saxe ]

But the fruit that can fall without shaking.
Indeed is too mellow for me. [ Lady Montagu ]

Light without life is a candle in a tomb;
Life without love is a garden without bloom. [ Proverb ]

Root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. [ Rich. II ]

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. [ Proverb ]

Purposing without performing is mere fooling. [ Proverb ]

A man without patience is a lamp without oil. [ A. de Musset ]

The world is all title-page without contents. [ Young ]

Old custom without truth is but an old error. [ Proverb ]

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]

A stoic of the woods, - a man without a tear. [ Campbell ]

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

Abundance without discretion is plain penury. [ Matteo Gribaldi ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

In prayer the lips never act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. [ Herrick ]

Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall. [ Proverb ]

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. [ Emerson ]

Custom without reason is but an ancient error. [ Proverb ]

Without real masters you cannot have servants. [ Carlyle ]

A woman without beauty knows but half of life. [ Mme. de Montaran ]

He that contemplates hath a day without night. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One danger is seldom overcome without another. [ Proverb ]

Such harmony in motion, speech and air,
That without fairness, she was more than fair. [ Crabbe ]

He that lives in hope dances without a fiddle. [ Proverb ]

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

A man without money is a bow without an arrow. [ Proverb ]

Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue. [ Proverb ]

Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. [ Proverb ]

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within,
Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. [ Horace ]

No one reaches a high position without daring. [ Syrus ]

Sleep without supping, and wake without owing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. [ Addison ]

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

Without a genius, learning soars in vain;
And, without learning, genius sinks again;
Their force united, crowns the sprightly reign. [ Elphinston ]

Stillness accompanied with sound so soft,
Charms more than silence. Meditation here
May think down hours to moments. Here the heart
May give an useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books. [ Cowper ]

Heaven, without good society, cannot be heaven. [ Proverb ]

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. [ Baron ]

It is a great victory that comes without blood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. [ Goethe ]

The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers.
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw.
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer. [ Longfellow ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. [ Hare ]

Beauty without grace is a violet without smell. [ Proverb ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. [ Johnson ]

Life without a friend is death with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

A purse without money is but a piece of leather. [ Proverb ]

A lord without riches is a soldier without arms. [ Proverb ]

One may tell lies without the danger of the law. [ Proverb ]

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. [ Herbert ]

Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing. [ Bacon ]

No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. [ Proverb ]

Ever onward! ever onward! without rest and quiet. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [ Cicero ]

He that is without money is a bird without wings. [ Proverb ]

Life without a friend is death without a witness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ability is of little account without opportunity. [ Napoleon I ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. [ Carlyle ]

Virtue itself without good manners, is laughed at. [ Proverb ]

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. [ French Proverb ]

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

You may dance on the ropes without reading Euclid. [ Proverb ]

No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. [ Danish Proverb ]

Even the most emancipated is not without a master. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [ Goethe ]

He who reckons without his host must reckon again. [ Italian Proverb ]

A man under no restraint is a bear without a ring. [ Proverb ]

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Praise without profit puts but little into the pot. [ Proverb ]

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love. [ Beecher ]

There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. [ Sall ]

Millers need no noise, yet cannot grind without it. [ Proverb ]

Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery. [ Proverb ]

Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motion grace,
In plumage delicate and beautiful,
Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales.
Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them.
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment. [ James Montgomery ]

We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [ Regnard ]

Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. [ J. H. Vincent ]

Better an end with terror than a terror without end. [ Schill ]

Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. [ Proverb ]

There is no short cut of a way without some ill way. [ Proverb ]

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. [ Thoreau ]

Worth without wealth is a good servant out of place. [ Proverb ]

To talk without thinking, is to shoot without aiming. [ Proverb ]

Half of them are without heart, half without culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

You will dance at the end of a rope without teaching. [ Proverb ]

Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within. [ Proverb ]

Contentment without money is the philosopher's stone. [ Lichtwer ]

Wit without judgment is a weary thing to the company. [ Proverb ]

Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish. [ Proverb ]

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. [ Spanish Proverb ]

The truth works sometimes from without as from within. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. [ French Proverb ]

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. [ Hafiz ]

He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an artist. [ Proverb ]

That which we may live without we need not covet much. [ Proverb ]

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. [ Lady M. Montague ]

Gentility without ability is worse than plain begging. [ Scotch Proverb ]

There is nothing without us that is not also within us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow. [ Proverb ]

No heart opens to sympathy without letting in delicacy. [ J. M. Barrie ]

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [ Juvenal ]

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear. [ Lucan ]

Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Knavery, without luck, is the worst trade in the world. [ Proverb ]

A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge. [ Lamartine ]

Friends got without desert, will be lost without cause. [ Proverb ]

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. [ Chinese Proverb ]

He utters empty words; he utters sound without meaning. [ Virgil ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. [ Corn ]

Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without a gem. [ Jane Porter ]

A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet. [ Proverb ]

You need not marry; you have troubles enough without it. [ Proverb ]

If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. [ Proverb ]

Be modest without diffidence, proud without presumption. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Will without reason is blind, and against reason is mad. [ Proverb ]

Care will kill a cat, yet there is no living without it. [ Proverb ]

No man can be a good poet without first being a good man. [ Ben Jonson ]

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. [ Roger Ascham ]

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. [ Talleyrand ]

Love without return is like a question without an answer. [ German Proverb ]

Go steal a horse, and then you'll die without being sick. [ Proverb ]

The heathens when they died, went to bed without a candle. [ Proverb ]

God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. [ Ruskin ]

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. [ Johnson ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. [ Desmahis ]

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

Rhyme without melody and sense is an abortion of the muse. [ Iscanus ]

Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument. [ William Shakespeare ]

A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

He that contemplates on his bed hath a day without a night. [ Proverb ]

A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle. [ From the Latin ]

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility. [ Amiel ]

A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. [ Robert Hall ]

A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. [ Chamfort ]

Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love. [ Rochepedre ]

God gives His wrath by weight, and without weight His mercy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed. [ C. M. Yonge ]

Modesty is an ornament, yet people get on better without it. [ German Proverb ]

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. [ Schumann ]

God deals His wrath by weight, but His mercy without weight. [ Proverb ]

A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud. [ Proverb ]

A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. [ Proverb ]

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. [ Burke ]

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. [ J. G. Holland ]

No man is born without faults, he is best who has the fewest. [ Horace ]

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach. [ Napoleon ]

You may offer a bribe without fear of having your throat cut. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [ Goethe ]

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

God gives his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure. [ Proverb ]

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood. [ Serv. Proverb ]

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. [ Johnson ]

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]

It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall. [ Blair ]

Those are praised most, that are praised without any interest. [ Proverb ]

Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows; but without that noise. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime. [ Proverb ]

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? [ Bible ]

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. [ Joseph Joubert ]

Wit without wisdom, cuts other men's meat and its own fingers. [ Proverb ]

Strange an astrologer should die without one wonder in the sky. [ Swift ]

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. [ Richter ]

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. [ Voltaire ]

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. [ Newton ]

To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle without weaving. [ Proverb ]

A wise man's thoughts walk within him, but a fool's without him. [ Proverb ]

A fair wife without a fortune is a fine house without furniture. [ Proverb ]

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. [ Lessing ]

We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours. [ Proverb ]

Discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man. [ Bacon ]

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]

He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends. [ Proverb ]

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. [ Confucius ]

Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]

All sorts are here that all the earth yields, variety without end. [ Milton ]

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. [ Voltaire ]

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache. [ Proverb ]

If you can be well without health, you maybe happy without virtue. [ Proverb ]

As there is no love without desire, so there is none without hope.

The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty without deserving it. [ John Ruskin ]

You will never have a friend if you must have one without failings. [ Proverb ]

A man may be happy here and hereafter, without much fame or wealth. [ Proverb ]

A petitioner at court that spares his purse, angles without a bait. [ Proverb ]

Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. [ Joseph Roux ]

Action is happiness here; and without action there can be no heaven. [ Voss ]

One may discern an ass shrouded in a lion's skin without spectacles. [ Proverb ]

It is useless to have youth without beauty, or beauty without youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. [ Confucius ]

Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them. [ Proverb ]

Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. [ Amiel ]

Much reading is like much eating, - wholly useless without digestion. [ South ]

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot. [ George Washington ]

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. [ George Eliot ]

Who marries for love without money, hath merry nights and sorry days. [ Proverb ]

Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. [ William Shakespeare ]

Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. [ Froude ]

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]

Nature provides without stint the main requisites of human happiness. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Happiness is a bird that we pursue our life long, without catching it.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. [ George MacDonald ]

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Sufficiently provided from within, he has need of little from without. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the poet ]

Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. [ Solon ]

Wisdom without innocence is knavery, innocence without wisdom is folly. [ Proverb ]

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It ]

Pride is the consciousness of what one is, without contempt for others. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. [ Locke ]

He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. [ Fuller ]

Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? [ Carlyle ]

He is so suspicious, that he cannot be got at without a stalking horse. [ Proverb ]

How many have died without having given even one kiss to their chimera! [ T. Gautier ]

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. [ De Sales ]

Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault. [ Proverb ]

There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any. [ Proverb ]

And all labor without any play, boys. Makes Jack a dull boy in the end. [ H. A. Page ]

Good works will never save you, but you can never be saved without them. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred. [ Proverb ]

Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. [ Swift ]

Coquetry is the desire to inspire love without experiencing it yourself. [ Mme. de Brade ]

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. [ H. W. Shaw ]

My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. [ Kepler ]

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. [ Joubert ]

He who has teeth is without bread, and he who has bread is without teeth. [ Italian Proverb ]

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes. [ Proverb ]

Flight towards preferment will be but slow, without some golden feathers. [ Proverb ]

One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. [ W. Unsworth ]

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Keith ]

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or,
When he has proved you, with nothing. [ Lavater ]

A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. [ La Roche ]

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation. [ Johnson ]

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. [ Scott ]

Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. [ French ]

Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all. [ Proverb ]

Happiness, without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal. [ Aughey ]

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

He who has neither friend, nor enemy, is without talents, powers, or energy. [ Lavater ]

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The shadow of a sound, - a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue. [ Paul Chatfield ]

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. [ George P. Upton ]

The world forgives with difficulty the fact that one can be happy without it.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. [ Dr. Johnson ]

So live, that thy young and glowing breast can think of death without a sigh. [ Eliza Cook ]

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]

We must laugh before we are happy, lest we should die without having laughed. [ La Bruyere ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. [ Warburton ]

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. [ Alfieri ]

He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. [ Lavater ]

Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. [ Jean Paul ]

'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. [ Herrick ]

He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously who is overcome without danger. [ Seneca ]

Being without well-being is a curse; and the greater being, the greater curse. [ Bacon ]

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. [ Hitopadesa ]

We say a thing is without rhyme or reason when it has neither number nor sense. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. [ Bancroft ]

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The smallest word has some unguarded spot, and danger lurks in i without a dot. [ O. W. Holmes ]

There is no religion without mystery. God Himself is the great secret of nature. [ Chateaubriand ]

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]

True religion is a life unfolded within, not something forced on us from without. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. [ Ward Beecher ]

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. [ L'Estrange ]

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. [ Beecher ]

Happy he who finds a friend; without that second self one lives but half of life. [ Chenedolle ]

Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, - what would man be? [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. [ Shenstone ]

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. [ Antoninus ]

Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. [ Aristotle ]

Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? [ Sir T. Browne ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

Rhetoric adorns and enlarges a thing with words, but is of no value without logic. [ Luther ]

Handsome widows, after a twelvemonth, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. [ Balzac ]

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. [ Sydney Smith ]

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. [ Proverb ]

Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor weep without woe, and blush without a crime. [ Horace Smith ]

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. [ Horace Walpole ]

Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak. [ Dilwyn ]

The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]

A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring without flowers. [ Francis I. of France ]

Life is no life without the blessing of a true, friendly, and edifying conversation. [ L'Estrange ]

Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. [ Guizot ]

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]

Reading is useless to some people: ideas pass through their heads without remaining. [ C. Jordan ]

Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. [ Pascal ]

Let the people take back their praise again, I will do as much as I can without that. [ Proverb ]

A fair woman shall not only command without authority, but persuade without speaking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]

Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. [ Cicero ]

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. [ Fontenelle ]

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. [ Goethe ]

No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Her face is like the Milky Way in the sky, - A meeting of gentle lights without a name. [ Sir John Suckling ]

The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Mallet ]

Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble. [ John Lily ]

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. [ Saadi ]

Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]

Prayer is, the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it. [ Rowland Hill ]

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. [ Pascal ]

Nero was wont to say of his master, Seneca, that his style was like mortar without lime. [ Bacon ]

A man may as well expect to be well, and at ease without wealth, as happy without virtue. [ Proverb ]

Raphael would have been a great painter even if he had come into the world without hands. [ Lessing ]

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained. [ Ruskin ]

Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Thomson ]

The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival's failure without triumph. [ J. Aikin ]

In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it. [ Montesquieu ]

We should not pass from the earth without leaving traces to carry our memory to posterity. [ Napoleon I ]

How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie; and without dying, oh, how sweet to die! [ John Wolcott ]

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]

As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. [ Feltham ]

Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. [ Ecclus ]

All beauty does not inspire love. Some please the sight without captivating the affections. [ Cervantes ]

A man of a great memory, without learning, hath a rock and a spindle, and no staff to spin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love without esteem can not reach far, nor rise very high: it is an angel with but one wing. [ A. Dumas fils ]

Humanity has won its suit (in America), so that Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. [ Marquis De Lafayette ]

Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. [ Charles Hodge ]

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain. [ Quarles ]

Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner. [ Shaftesbury ]

Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [ Balzac ]

Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge. [ Bancroft ]

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. [ L'Estrange ]

An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill'd with calves' brains without any sage in them. [ Webster ]

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. [ Glanvill ]

Twenty ages sunk in eternal night. They are without movement, without light, and without noise. [ Lemoine ]

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. [ Johnson ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. [ Dr. Raffler ]

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [ La Fontaine ]

There cannot be a body of rules without a rationale, and this rationale constitutes the science. [ Sir G. C. Lewis ]

Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. [ Carlyle ]

No one is qualified to converse in public who is not highly contented without such conversation. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion - a form of knowledge without the power of it. [ Addison ]

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. [ Steele ]

The true characteristic of genius - without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them. [ Channing ]

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. [ Dr. Watts ]

The greatest misfortune one can wish his enemy is that he may love without being loved in return. [ Labouisse ]

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]

God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. [ Amer. Proverb ]

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. [ Sterne ]

All her excellences stand in her so silently as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. [ Johnson ]

Without woman the two extremities of life would be without succor, and the middle without pleasure.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. [ William Shakespeare ]

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. [ S. Bailey ]

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else. [ Hanway ]

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. [ Colton ]

Fuss is half-sister to Hurry, and neither of them can do any thing without getting in their own way. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

From the beginning and to the end of time, love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic. [ John Ruskin ]

Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. [ Cervantes ]

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [ Bacon ]

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. [ Theophrastus ]

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. [ Washington Allston ]

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. [ I. M. Wise ]

Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration. [ Carlyle ]

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. [ Bp. Patrick ]

Sin and hedgehogs are born without spikes; but how they prick and wound after their birth, we all know. [ Richter ]

Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. [ Bacon ]

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious. [ Hume ]

Rending nourisheth the wit; and when it is wearied with study, it refresheth it, yet not without study. [ Seneca ]

Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom. [ John Ruskin ]

Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. [ William Penn ]

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults. [ Quesnel ]

We accuse women of insincerity without perceiving that they are more sincere with us than with themselves.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. [ Johnson ]

The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. [ Confucius ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]

Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be? [ E. de Girardin ]

It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. [ From the Latin ]

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. [ Francis Wayland ]

Better that people should laugh at one while they instruct, than that they should praise without benefiting. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! - a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To drink without thirst, to make love without cessation: this is what distinguishes us from the lower animals. [ Beaumarchais, Marriage of Figaro ]

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. [ Fielding ]

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. [ Emerson ]

Health is the soul that animates all enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame. [ Jane Porter ]

You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. [ Colton ]

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best. [ Landor ]

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]

Love without end hath no end, says the Spaniard; meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The history of literature abounds with examples of words used almost without meaning by whole classes of writers. [ William Mathews ]

You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. [ Bulwer ]

I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. [ James Ellis ]

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe, - human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. [ James A. Garfield ]

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. [ Carlyle ]

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [ Juvenal ]

Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. [ Saville ]

Knowledge, wit, and courage alone excite our admiration; and thou, sweet and modest Virtue, remainest without honors. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. [ Seneca ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]

We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. [ Juv ]

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. [ Junius ]

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. [ La Bruyere ]

The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence. [ Parke Godwin ]

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke without convincing us that the fire has existed. [ Junius ]

Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves within it as the oldest, but without the plummet which can measure their depths. [ Richter ]

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

We are for the most part but the contemporaries of happiness. It is spoken of about us, but we die without having known it. [ O. Firmez ]

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. [ Wycherley ]

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas. [ Beecher ]

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. [ Bruyfere ]

Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. [ Carlyle ]

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. [ Sheridan ]

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity: for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. [ Henry Taylor ]

It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. [ Buddha ]

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social - I mean a purse? [ Carlyle ]

As for me, give me turtle or give me death. What is life without turtle? nothing. What is turtle without life? nothinger still. [ Artemus Ward ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. [ Emerson ]

Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. [ Cervantes ]

Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vita of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. [ Colton ]

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. [ Max Muller ]

Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]

Pleasure and pain, the good, and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Many believe the article of remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance or the fruits of holy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. [ Addison ]

There is no such thing as being agreeable without a thorough good-humour, a natural sweetness of temper, enlivened by cheerfulness. [ Lady Montagu ]

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. [ Carlyle ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. [ Bacon ]

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 ]

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. [ Alexander Walker ]

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes. [ Thackeray ]

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth. [ Colton ]

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Failures always overtake those who have the power to do, without the will to act, and who need that essential quality in life, energy. [ James Ellis ]

Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]

The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues - righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. [ Sydney Smith ]

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered. [ Lavater ]

If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. [ Johnson ]

Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. [ Lindner ]

We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. [ Beaconsfield ]

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. [ Addison ]

Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. [ Montaigne ]

He who thinks he can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world can not do without him is still more in error. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china: it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. [ Mme. de Salm ]

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. [ Coleridge ]

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations. [ Bovee ]

Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]

Power of imagination is regulated only by art, especially by poetry. There is nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty without taste. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. [ Ouida ]

There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]

Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

Without great men, great crowds of people in a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas - the more, the worse. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. [ George Eliot ]

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. [ Johnson ]

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]

Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirit of The Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram, without the evil effects of either. [ Layard ]

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. [ Southern ]

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. [ Lord Bacon ]

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to commonsense, and in lending one's self to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. [ Amiel ]

He who without discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest among the foolish ones, and this in either case, (i.e. in denying as well as affirming. [ Dante ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

Putting thoughts in writing. It resembles a tradesman taking stock, without which he never knows either what he possesses, or in what he is deficient. [ John Hunter ]

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. [ Georg Ebers ]

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. [ Hume ]

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. [ Coleridge ]

A table without music is little better than a manger; for music at meals is like a carbuncle set in gold, or the signet of an emerald highly burnished. [ Epictetus ]

Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company and dissipation without pleasure. [ Edward Gibbon ]

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end. [ Bacon ]

To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]

You cannot lead a fighting world without having it regimented, chivalried; nor can you any more continue to lead a working world unregimented, anarchic. [ Carlyle ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mischievous. [ Anacharsis ]

God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]

No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. [ John Ruskin ]

Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

Public opinion is the atmosphere of Society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms. [ W. R. Alger ]

No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that are in them what were we? [ Leigh Hunt ]

In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]

We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours, there is no need of revelation or of confidence, - all is open to us. [ Du Coeur ]

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definiteness. [ Edgar Allan Poe ]

Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Make yourself thoroughly acquainted with your subject before writing, write without special attention to composition, and prune afterwards what you have written. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. [ Joseph Roux ]

As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book without impoverishing it. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth. [ Sydney Smith ]

The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move, without the pilot she would be lost. [ F. Schultz ]

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended. [ Whately ]

The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. [ Burnet ]

Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. [ John Morley ]

O unfortunates who sin without pleasure! in your errors be more reasonable; be, at least, fortunate sinners. Since you must be damned, be damned for amiable faults. [ Voltaire ]

Discouragement is a passion, the most dangerous of all: it takes from us all our arms, all our forces, and abandons us without pity to the snares of voluptuousness. [ Alfred Mercier ]

There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]

That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. [ Landor ]

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. [ Prince de Ligne ]

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. [ Beaconsfield ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert: that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. [ Johnson ]

Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in. darkness. [ Hannah More ]

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. [ Ben Jonson ]

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. [ Bishop Hall ]

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. [ Hazlitt ]

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]

A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. [ Johnson ]

If ever this free people, if this government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office - that is a way to live without work. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. [ Bolingbroke ]

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. [ Hamerton ]

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. [ Hazlitt ]

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. [ Lowell ]

The unknown! It is the field in which are sown our dreams, where we see them germinate, grow, and bloom. Who would live without the benefit of the incertitude granted to our miseries. [ E. Souvestre ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection. [ Dugald Stewart ]

The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen. [ Horace Mann ]

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. [ Swift ]

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. [ Sterling ]

Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. [ J. S. Mill ]

Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! [ Pascal ]

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]

The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination - for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, an apprehension; and even the Word of God, a revelation. [ Bishop Norris ]

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]

Men commonly injure one another without cause, and simply to do something: as an idle promenader in a garden, breaks the young branches, and strips off the leaves of the most beautiful flowers. [ E. Souvestre ]

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]

Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]

Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]

Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]

The main thing in writing is to have distinct, and clear, and well-marshalled ideas, and then to express them simply and without affectation. This forms what we may call the bones of a good style. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]

To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]

Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one; - rather a hard fight at times. [ Carlyle ]

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me. [ Napoleon ]

Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]

We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]

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? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page without noticing the medium. [ Coleridge ]

Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life. [ Franklin ]

Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Whewell ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]

The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]

To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]

Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. [ Seneca ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. [ Hannah More ]

Certainly the highest and dearest concerns of a temporal life are infinitely less valuable than those of an eternal; and consequently ought, without any demur at all, to be sacrificed to them, whenever they come in competition. [ South ]

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]

He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets. [ Locke ]

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. [ Channing ]

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

Love and the Soul, working together, might go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike. [ Ed ]

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]

Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]

By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. [ Adam Smith ]

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room - their motions, their looks and their words - and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. [ Chesterfield ]

A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex. [ Balzac ]

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. [ John Ruskin ]

Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]

The study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

Without woman, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragrant garlands. [ Chateaubriand ]

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection. [ Colton ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. [ William Penn ]

Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. [ Matthew Arnold ]

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]

Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when reduced to a system in books, as a body of rules derived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. [ W. E. Channing ]

If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]

A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]

The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillanimity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor without bitter execration. [ F. Wayland ]

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

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 ]

Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]

Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. [ C. Buck ]

The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. [ Whipple ]

Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]

Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. [ Cervantes ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]

Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]

Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. [ Paley ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]

His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind. [ Bruyere ]

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. [ Addison ]

Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them. Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink: but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system. [ Thackeray ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]

An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means, said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. [ Mrs. Piozzi ]

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out. You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]

The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]