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Perception: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.— DOROTHY BERRY — Sonnet.

Oh! nature's noblest gift-my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men!— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. L. 7.

The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.— HENRY CONSTABLE — Sonnet.

The pen became a clarion.— LONGFELLOW — Monte Cassino. St. 13.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. S.— BULWER-LYTTON — Richelieu. Act II. Sc. 2.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 52.

"You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading."— R. B. SHERIDAN — Clio's Protest.

See MOORE'S Life of Sheridan. Vol. I. Vol. I. P. 55, The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good. men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.— WORDSWORTH — Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Pt. III. V. Walton's Book of Lives.

As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 481.

For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."— CARLYLE — Varnhagen Von Ense's

Memoirs. London and Westminster Review. 1838. He gives us the very quintessence of perception.— LOWELL — My Study Windows.

Coleridge. Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.— WORDSWORTH — Yes, Thou art Fair.