| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Rivarol |
| | | Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. | 1 |
| If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in opulence. | 2 |
| In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. | 3 |
| Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. | 4 |
| It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers; but to act with wisdom, there’s the rub. | 5 |
| It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. | 6 |
| Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present, and trembling for the future. | 7 |
| Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. | 8 |
| Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything. | 9 |
| Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity. | 10 |
| Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. | 11 |
| Reason is a historian, but the passions are the actors. | 12 |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. | 13 |
| The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. | 14 |
| To lose one’s self in revery, one must be either happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. | 15 | | |
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