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• With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 632...
• Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book i, Line 464...
• He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book iv, Line 389...
• Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed The woes of ma
  Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,-- A theme of future song!...
• A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
  What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?...
• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 488...
• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 163...
• And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 43...
• T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 427...