To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.