The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by John Wilbye

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

There is a jewel which no Indian mines can buy, No chymic art can counterfeit; It makes men rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine; turns wooden cups to gold; The homely whistle to sweet music's strain, Seldom it comes; -to few from Heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught, Content.— filed under Contention
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