| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Laboulaye |
| | | God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. | 1 |
| Patience—in patience there is safety. | 2 |
| Patience—with patience everything comes in due season. | 3 |
| Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. | 4 |
| The desert is mute, and dead men tell no tales. | 5 |
| The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. | 6 |
| Truth is like a pearl: he alone possesses it who has plunged into the depths of life and torn his hands on the rocks of Time. | 7 |
| Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man. | 8 | | |
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