C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Sherlock
Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life; they enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man’s meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man’s table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court.