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 Thomas Southerne

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

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man.— filed under Man
Ambition is our idol, on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme; To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.— filed under Ambition
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.— filed under Pity
Pity's akin to love.— filed under Proverbs
Revised by Buckley. 'Tis something to be willing to commend; But my best praise is, that I am your friend.— filed under Friends
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