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 John G. Lockhart

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

Man. Jerrold's Wit. Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town!— filed under Curiosity
Country Thinking. Men and Women. To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talent-the tools to him that can handle them.— filed under Ability
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