Pearls of Thought Part 55

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil like bales unopened to the sun.--_Young._

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.--_Spurgeon._

Thought is invisible nature--nature is invisible thought.--_Heinrich Heine._

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them, it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.--_George Eliot._

Wherever a great mind utters its thoughts,--there is Golgotha.--_Heinrich Heine._

"Give me," said Herder to his son, as he lay in the parched weariness of his last illness, "give me a great thought, that I may quicken myself with it."--_Richter._

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.--_Sheridan._

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.--_Joubert._

Many men's thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles.--_Charles Buxton._

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.--_Emerson._

~Threats.~--Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them.--_Colton._

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.--_Emerson._

~Time.~--Time's abyss, the common grave of all.--_Dryden._

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.--_Shakespeare._

Time makes more converts than reason.--_Thomas Paine._

Time stoops to no man's lure.--_Swinburne._

Time is the wisest councillor.--_Pericles._

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.--_Madame Swetchine._

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.--_Seneca._

The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good.--_Tennyson._

Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth! ask death-beds, they can tell.--_Young._

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.--_Balthaser Gracian._

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.--_Madame Swetchine._

~t.i.tle.~--How impious is the t.i.tle of "sacred majesty" applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust!--_Thomas Paine._

The three highest t.i.tles that can be given a man are those of martyr, hero, saint.--_Gladstone._

~Toleration.~--The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.--_George Eliot._

Error tolerates, truth condemns.--_Fernan Caballero._

Toleration is the best religion.--_Victor Hugo._

~Tongue~.--When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.--_Paxton Hood._

~Travel.~--Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully sluggardized at home wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.--_Shakespeare._

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins.--_N. P.

Willis._

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.--_Johnson._

To see the world is to judge the judges.--_Joubert._

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do the same.--_Haliburton._

~Treason.~--Treason pleases, but not the traitor.--_Cervantes._

The man was n.o.ble; but with his last attempt he wiped it out; betrayed his country; and his name remains to the ensuing age abhorred.--_Shakespeare._

~Trifles.~--A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.--_Shakespeare._

We are not only pleased but turned by a feather. The history of a man is a calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal, in his brilliant way, Antony might have kept the world.--_Willmott._

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt.--_Huxley._

Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with propriety and with grace requires a something that riches cannot give: even trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. The citizens of Megara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offer excited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquered the world; but he received this tribute of their respect with complacency on being informed that they had never offered it to any but to Hercules and himself.--_Colton._

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particle.--_Emerson._

It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge.--_George Eliot._

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.--_Madame Swetchine._

Little things console us, because little things afflict us.--_Pascal._

~Trouble.~--Annoyance is man's leaven; the element of movement, without which we would grow mouldy.--_Feuchtersleben._

~Truth.~--Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.--_George Eliot._

Nothing so beautiful as truth.--_Des Cartes._

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.--_Charles Buxton._

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.--_Th.o.r.eau._

Whenever you look at human nature in ma.s.ses, you find every truth met by a counter truth, and both equally true.--_Charles Buxton._