Pleasure-"Is (to women) what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys." Colton. Poesy-"Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge." Sir Philip Sidney. Poet-“A poet is a maker, as the word signifies; and he who cannot make, that is, invent, hath his name for nothing." Dryden. Poetry-Is said to be a gift, but it very often. turns out to be a theft. Politeness-Is like an air-cushion; there may be nothing in it, but it eases one's jolts wonderfully. -“The art of doing to others the honours of the advantages we possess, whether of our minds, our riches, our rank, or our standing." De Custine. Poverty-"Is the mother of health." George Herbert. "The church's banquet, Angel's age, God's breath in man returning to his birth, Engine against the Almighty, sinner's tower, A kind of tune which all things hear and fear; Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, Exalted manna, gladness of the blest, The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices,—something understood." George Herbert. |