| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Pericles |
| | Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. | 1 |
| Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet. | 2 |
| She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil. | 3 |
| Time is the wisest counsellor. | 4 |
| ’Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. | 5 |
| Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. | 6 | | |
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