| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Bailey |
| | | Error is worse than ignorance. | 1 |
| Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. | 2 |
| He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. | 3 |
| He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow. | 4 |
| If all were rich, gold would be penniless. | 5 |
| Let every thought too, soldier-like, be stripped, / And roughly looked over. | 6 |
| Life’s but a means unto an end; that end / Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God. | 7 |
| Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. | 8 |
| Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder and loves parade. | 9 |
| Man is one, and he hath one great heart. | 10 |
| Mist of words, / Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge / The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less / Doubly. | 11 |
| Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them. | 12 |
| Simplicity is Nature’s first step, and the last of art. | 13 |
| The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl’s enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form. | 14 |
| The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that. | 15 |
| The sun, God’s crest upon his azure shield, the heavens. | 16 |
| We should count time by heart-throbs. / He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, / Acts the best. | 17 |
| Who never doubted never half believed. | 18 |
| Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they show / Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been. | 19 |
| Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more. | 20 | | |
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