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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Humility |
| Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. Bailey—Festus. Sc. Home. | 1 |
| He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. Coleridge—Devil’s Walk. Original title, Devil’s Thoughts. Written jointly by Coleridge and Southey. | 2 |
| I am well aware that I am the ’umblest person going * * * let the other be where he may. Dickens—David Copperfield. Vol. I. Ch. XVI. | 3 |
| ’Umble we are, ’umble we have been, ’umble we shall ever be. Dickens—David Copperfield. Vol. I. Ch. XVII. | 4 |
| Parvum parva decent. Humble things become the humble. Horace—Epistles. I. 7. 44. | 5 |
| God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. Keble—Miscellaneous Poems. At Hooker’s Tomb. | 6 |
| O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Vanini. L. 327. | 7 |
| One may be humble out of pride. Montaigne—Of Presumption. Bk. II. Ch. XVII. | 8 |
| Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. Montgomery—Humility. | 9 |
| Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. Montgomery—Humility. | 10 |
| Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. Moore—Loves of the Angels. Third Angel’s Story. St. 11. | 11 |
| I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray’rs. Pope—Prologue to Satires. L. 268. | 12 |
| Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that. Spurgeon—Gleanings Among the Sheaves. Humility. | 13 |
| The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. Spurgeon—Gleanings Among the Sheaves. The Right Estimate. | 14 |
| Da locum melioribus. Give place to your betters. Terence—Phormio. III. 2. 37. | 15 |
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