A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

Keep your working power at its maximum.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.