The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Henry Ellis

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

S. Riley's trans. To make a mountain of a mole-hill.— filed under Proverbs
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.— filed under George
Those who live on vanity must not unreasonably expect to die of mortification.— filed under Vanity
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