A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
The mind paints before the brush.
An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.
Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.