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• And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
  -- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life!
  and solder of society! -- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 88...
• Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, Stanza 82...
• One claim for the value of the British monarchy is that its existence precludes anyone from aspiring to absolute rule.
  I have a theory that the American presidency serves a similar purpose, precluding anyone from managing the government....
• The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder'd its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.
  -- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- Luther, Man's Need and God's Supply...
• Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory?
  O death! where is thy sting? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dying Christian to his Soul...
• Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10...
• FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests.
  It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children....