The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. – Burton

Obedience alone gives the right to command. – Emerson

Through obedience learn to command. – Plato

Virtue is the first title of nobility. – Moliere

It is better to be nobly remembered, than nobly born. – Ruskin

Be noble in every thought

And every deed! – Longfellow

A fool, indeed, has great need of a title; it teaches men to call him count or duke, and thus forget his proper name, of fool. – J. Crown

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known. – Fuller

No better heritage can a father bequeath to his children than a good name. – J. Hamilton

Giving a name, indeed, is poetic art; all poetry, if we go to that with it, is but a giving of names. – Carlyle

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,

By any other name would smell as sweet. – Shakespeare

The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass…..nay, it is ratherlike and enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. – Bacon

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. – Bacon

The mind is the man, and the knowledge of the mind. Bacon

The forehead is the gate of the mind. – Cicero

The more minds we have, the more original men do we discover there are common people find no difference between men. – Pascal

An open scent bottle soon loses its scent. An open mind is often a vacant mind. There is something to be said for corks. – Arnold Lunn

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up. – William Hazlitt

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Emerson

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds. – Macaulay

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts. – Robert Browning

Mind is ever the ruler of the universe. – Plato

Nor less I deem that there are powers,

Which of themselves our minds impress

That we can feed this mind of ours

In a wise passiveness.        -    Wordsworth

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. – John Locke

In these bodies of ours, the mind is of more value than the hand; all our vigor is in that. – Ovid

Our purse shall be proud our garments poor;

For tis the mind that makes the body rich. – Shakespeare

A man’s body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin’s lining: – rumple the one, – you rumple the other. – Sterne

Merit is worthier than fame. – Bacon

Merit and good-breeding will make their way everywhere. – Lord Chesterfield

Man’s chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. – Samuel Johnson

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. – Pope

What better school for manners than the company of virtuous women. – David Hume

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained. – Machiavelli

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. – Mark Twain

Office changes manners. ( Oficion mudan constumbres.)

What were once vices are now the manners of the day? ( Quae fuerant vitia mores sunt.)

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. – Emerson

Everyone thinks himself a well-bred. – Lord Shaftesbury

Nurture and good manners makes man. – Unknown

Manners make the man. – Defoe

The difference is, that in the days of old

Men made the manners; manners now make men. – Byron

 The mystery of mysteries is to view machines making machines. – Benjamin

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. Emerson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the word of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. – J.S. Mill

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. – H.G. Wells

 Love is love’s reward. – Dryden

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. – Bulwer – Lytton

In love, loss and gain are harmonized. – Rabindranath Tagore

Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. – Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the noblest frailty of the mind. – Dryden

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. – Carlyle

Love is a fine flower, but unity of consciousness is the root. – Sri Aurobindo

Love is the salt of life. – John Sheffield

The fist condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. – George Eliot

Love and a cough cannot be hid. – George Herbert

Love is like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life. – Douglas Jerrold

Whom we love best, to them we can say least. – John Ray

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – Shakespeare

In women pity begets love, in men love begets pity. – Churton

’Tis hard to be in love and to be wise – Nathaniel Lee

Love draws me one way, reason another. – Ovid

Analysis kills love, as well as other things. – John Brown

Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. – Moliere

Man dreams of fame, while woman wakes to love. – Tennyson

Love lessens woman’s delicacy and increases man’s. – Jean Paul Richter

That you may be loved, be lovable. – Ovid

The only present love demand is love. – John Gay

The devils take me; if I think anything but love to be the object of love. – Fielding

Love for love is evilest bought. – Unknown

The sight of lovers feed those in love. – Shakespeare

Love’s a malady without a cure. – Dryden

Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure. – Pope

Love, the mild servant, makes a drunken master. – John Masefield

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. – George Herbert

He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides. – George Herbert

For love is heaven, and heaven is love – Scott

And love is love list when embalmed in tears. – Scott

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. – Robert Burton

Literature is the thought of thinking souls. – Carlyle

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. – Emerson

It is life that shakes and rocks us; it is literature which stabilizes and confirms. – H.W. Garrod

Literature is a very bad church, but a very good walking-stick. – Charles Lamb

 I feel and seek the light I cannot see. – S.T. Coleridge

God said, let there be light and there was light. – Old Testament

Every light has its shadow. – John Ray

The Light that Failed – John Heywood