| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Mason |
| | | | O credulity, |
| Security’s blind nurse, the dream of fools, |
| The drunkard’s ape, that feeling for his way |
| Ev’n when he thinks, in his deluded sense |
| To snatch at safety, falls without defence. |
| 1 |
| | ’Tis ever thus |
| With noble minds, if chance they slide to folly; |
| Remorse stings deeper, and relentless conscience |
| Pours more gall into the bitter cup |
| Of their severe repentance. |
| 2 |
| | Uncurbed ambition, unresisting sloth, |
| And base dependence, are the fiends accurst. |
| 3 |
| | With what a heavy and retarding weight |
| Does expectation load the wing of time. |
| 4 |
| A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering. | 5 |
| As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. | 6 |
| Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. | 7 |
| Time’s gradual touch has mouldered into beauty many a tower, which when it frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. | 8 | | |
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