--VOLTAIRE.
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as
between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.--HARE.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and
the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its
brightness.--PERCIVAL.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.--JOUBERT.
Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its
divine origin.--BEECHER.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to
have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have
been, but as they really were.--CERVANTES.
POLITENESS.--True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply
consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
--CHESTERFIELD.
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may
affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural
politeness.--STANISLAUS.
Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the
heart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off the
rudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make us
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke.--JAY.
Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.--JOUBERT.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
--ALPHONSE KARR.
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best
thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the
want of it.
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