1. QUOTES What gems of painting
or statuary are in the
One must be a wise world of art, or what
reader to quote wisely flowers are in the
and well. - Amos world of nature, are
Bronson Alcott gems of thought to the
cultivated and the
The maxims of men thinking. - Oliver
disclose their hearts. - Wendell Holmes
French Proverb
Stealing someone
To select well among else's words frequently
old things, is almost spares the
equal to inventing new embarrassment of
ones. - Nicholas eating your own. -
Charles Trublet Peter Anderson
I have gathered a posie A short saying oft
of other men's flowers, contains much
and nothing but the wisdom. - Sophocles
thread that binds them
is my own. - Michel de It often happens that
Montaigne the quotations
constitute the most
Proverbs are mental valuable part of a
gems gathered in the book. - Vicesimus
diamond districts of Knox
the mind. - William R.
Alger
2. A collection of rare A proverb is much
thoughts is nothing less matter decocted into
than a cabinet of few words. - Thomas
intellectual gems.- Fuller
William B. Sprague
A maxim is the exact
Good sayings are like and noble expression
pearls strung together. of an important and
- Chinese Proverb indisputable truth.
Good maxims are the
A proverb is to speech
germs of all
what salt is to food. -
excellence; when
Arabic Proverb
firmly fixed on the
Proverbs are the cream memory, they nourish
of a nation's thought. - the will. - Joseph
Unknown Joubert
There is not less wit, It is delightful to
not less invention, in transport one's self into
applying rightly a the spirit of the past, to
thought one finds in a see how a wise man
book, than in being the has thought before us,
first author of that and to what glorious
book. - Pierre Boyle height we have at last
reached. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
3. Time is of of no Human success is a
account with great quotation from
thoughts, which are as overhead. - Charles H.
fresh today as when Parkhurst
they first passed
A well-cultivated mind
through their authors'
is, so to speak, made
minds ages ago. -
up of all the minds of
Samuel Smiles
preceding ages; it is
The diamond may only one single mind
adorn royalty, which has been
regardless of personal educated during all this
worth; but jewels of time. - Bernard de
thought render even Bovier de Fontenelle
poverty illustrious and
Maxims are the
sublime.
condensed good sense
- found in Gems for
of nations. - Sir J.
the Fireside
Mackintosh
Proverbs may be said
Many ideas grow
to be the abridgment of
better when
wisdom. - Joseph
transplanted into
Joubert
another mind, than in
The proverb answers the one where they
where the sermon fails. sprung up. - Oliver
- W. G. Simms Wendell Holmes
4. Always have a book at
hand, in the parlor, on
the table, for the
family; a book of
condensed thought and
striking anecdote, of
sound maxims and
truthful apothegms. It
will impress on your
own mind a thousand
valuable suggestions,
and teach your children
a thousand lessons of
truth and duty. Such a
book is a casket of
jewels for your
housebold. - Tryon
Edwards
