C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Boufflers
Conscience is the living law, and honor is to this law what piety is to religion. 1 Constancy is a saint without a worshiper. 2 Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. 3 How beautiful is victory, but how dear! 4 How grand is victory, but how dear! 5 If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. 6 It is not advice, but approval, which we crave. 7 Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. 8 Morality has need, that it may be well received, of the mask of fable and the charm of poetry; truth pleases less when it is naked; and it is the only virgin whom we best like to see a little clothed. 9 Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume. 10 The greatest of all pleasures is to give pleasure to one whom we love. 11 The higher we rise the more isolated we become; and all elevations are cold. 12 The warrior who cultivates his mind polishes his arms. 13 The zero of friendship’s thermometer. 14
