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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Castles in the Air |
| A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. W. R. Alger. | 1 | ||||
| No tribute is laid on castles in the air. Churchill. | 2 | ||||
| Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! Bulwer-Lytton. | 3 | ||||
Swift. | 4 | ||||
| Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. Thackeray. | 5 | ||||
| Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts. Herder. | 6 | ||||
| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreau. | 7 | ||||
| Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. Schiller. | 8 | ||||
| Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free. Carlyle. | 9 | ||||
| In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher’s way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air. Swift. | 10 | ||||
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