The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-26
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
Many OF Them said 10 Have Origin
ated Among the Legal Profession.

Lieutenant-C Colonel Dalbiac, the Con-
sentative member of the present House
Of Commons for Central Finsbury, has
just presented to the public an excellent
Dictionary Of Quotations on which he
has been at work for inward of five
years. Reference to chapter and verse for
each quotation has been given, and a
glance at the index of authors win prove
in a way that is at once convincing n
gratifying how largely the members of
the bar and of the judicial bench have
contributed to the authorship of the fa-
nous phrases which have become familiar
in our mouths as household words.
Sir Edward 0 and Blackstone are
highly technical writer's, but Colonel Dali
biac has successfully aid both the Third
Institutes and the 'Commentariesp un-
der contribution. To Coke we owe the
familiar expression, "a mans house is
his castle" while Blackstone gives us the
weli-known axiom, Man was formed for
society"
LORD Bacon. who has chosen all knowl-
edge for his province is, as might be an
tcipated, the anthor of many familiar
quotations. Here are a few:-sA crowd is
not company, and faces are but a gallery
OF pictures, and talk but a tinkling cvm-
pa! where there is no love- "a man IS
but what he knoweth." "A mans dis
position is never wei known till he be
crossed" children sweeten labors. hut
they make misfortune more bitter: they
increase the cares of life, but they miti-
gate the remembrance of DEATH Dis
cretion OF speech is more than elo-
quence." "He that hath a wife
and children hath given hostage to
fortune. for they are impediments to
great enterprises, either of virtue or mis-
cnie1. knowledge is power Look
ers-on many times see more than the
gamesters- One foul sentence doth
more hurt than man. foul examples .
FIaise Is the reflection of virtue .
reading naketh a full man, conference
a ready man, and writing an exact man,
some books are to be tasted, Others are
20 De swallowed, and some few are to
pc chewed and digested.' 1.-THE knowl-
cage or man is as the waters, some de-
scending from above and some springing
from beneath, the one Informed by the
ilght or nature and the other inspired BY
divine revelation" The mould of a
mans future is in his own hands 1.-THE
remedy IS worse b the disease
There is nothing makes a man suspect
more than to know ~iittle.' Wives are
young mems Tnistresses, companions for
middle g and old mems nurses"
John Selden is the author of the i'm
mortal sayings, "Old friends are best ),
and ASyllables govern the world, while
jeremy Bentham, the eminent judicial
writer of the present century, mas given
TO US: st is the greatest good to the
greatest number which is the measure of
right and wrong"
The saying, when rogues fall out and
nonest men get their own fell from the
lips Of Sir NJ Hale, when sitting on the
Judicial bench, and the saving. The
greater truth, the greater the libel.- was
hrst uttered by Lord Mansfield in his ca
paclty Of Chief Justice of England.
Lord Brougham speaking IN the House
or Commons in 1925, first gave utterance
to the saying, The s~choolmaster is
abroad" The full paragraph of the speech
runs thus;-aThe schoolmaster is abroad,
ana | trust more to him, armed with
ms primer, than I do to the soldier in
Iui miltary array, for upholding and ex-
tending the liberties of the country
Fielding, whose unique knowledge of
human nature was largely derived from
his experience as a police magistrate, has
encircled our literature by the saying.
Love and scandal are the best s~teeteners
of tea"
Nor has the o~rigination of
sayings been confined, SO far as legal cir
cles are concerned, to those who have
passed away Augustin Birrell, @. c., NJ.
f., occupies a very conspicuous position
in the pages of Colonel Dalbiac's
rell we owe the sayings. "A great poet,
hke a great peak, must sometimes be al
lowed TO have his head in the clouds;''
That great dust heap called history and
The possession of great physical strength
is nc mean assistance to a s~traightfor-
ward life. The Law Tribune.