| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Joseph Roux |
| | | A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. | 1 |
| Everything that is exquisite hides itself. | 2 |
| Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. | 3 |
| Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common. | 4 |
| Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. | 5 |
| God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart. | 6 |
| God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears. | 7 |
| God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. | 8 |
| Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. | 9 |
| Length of saying makes languor of hearing. | 10 |
| Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring and blocks of ice in winter. | 11 |
| Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. | 12 |
| Philosophers call God “the great unknown.” “The great misknown” would be more correct. | 13 |
| Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. | 14 |
| Say nothing good of yourself, yon will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you wilt be taken at your word. | 15 |
| The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us. | 16 |
| The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest. | 17 |
| We love justice greatly, and just men but little. | 18 | | |
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