| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | St. Evremond |
| | | Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. | 1 |
| He is not always at ease who laughs. | 2 |
| History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. | 3 |
| Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. | 4 |
| Liberality is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged. | 5 |
| Politeness is a mixture of discretion, civility, complaisance and circumspection spread over all we do and say. | 6 |
| Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed. | 7 |
| Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. | 8 |
| The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us. | 9 |
| There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. | 10 |
| Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. | 11 |
| We rarely meet with persons that have true judgment; which, to many, renders literature a very tiresome knowledge. Good judges are as rare as good authors. | 12 |
| We want fewer things to live in poverty with satisfaction, than to live magnificently with riches. | 13 | | |
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