"I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Red as a rose is she."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"And thou art long and lank and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Our myriad-minded Shakespeare."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The nightmare Life-in-Death was she."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The cold winds swept the mountain-height, And pathless was the dreary wild, And 'mid the cheerless hours of night A mother wandered with her child: As through the drifting snows she press'd, The babe was sleeping on her breast."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"A good man possesses a kingdom."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Whom they have injured they also hate."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The gladsome light of jurisprudence."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,-- What are you when the moon shall rise?"

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!"

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The frivolous work of polished idleness."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain