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 Park Benjamin

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

A Discourse of Flowers. Flowers are Love's truest language; they Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old, Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold, But love-strong love, that never can decay!— filed under Flirting
Undertakers. Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.— filed under Occupations-Undertakers
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