Category: Various quotes

Herbert Spencer

Ambrose Philips

Edmund Spenser

And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.


William Cullen Bryant

All that tread,The globe are but a handful to the tribesThat slumber in its bosom.


Letitia Elizabeth Landon

John Dryden

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

Whoever converses much among the old books, will be something hard to please among the new.


Charles Reade

Samuel Butler (novelist)

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.