James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Sir Egerton Brydges

Duty by habit is to pleasure turn’d; / He is content who to obey has learn’d.

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

“Nil admirari” is the motto which men of the world always affect, thinking it vulgar to wonder or be enthusiastic.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.