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 W. W. Story

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

Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.— filed under Flowers-Violet
The Poet in his Art Must imitate the whole, and say the smallest part. S.— filed under Poets
Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.— filed under Silence
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