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Sweetness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?— PLINY — Natural History. Bk. XXVIII. Ch. 5.

Midnight hags, By force of potent spells, of bloody characters, And conjurations horrible to hear, Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep, And set the ministers of hell at work.— NICHOLAS ROWE — Jane Shore. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 240.

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.— MADAME DE STAËL — See ABEL STEVENS'

Life of Madame de Staël. Ch. XXXIV.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.— CHURCHILL — Gotham. Bk. II. L. 20.

S. And waste its sweetness on the desert air.— GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 14.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.— SWIFT — Battle of the Books.

The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door.— WORDSWORTH — Lucy Gray. St. 2.