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.--LYTTON.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.--H.W. SHAW.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. --BARTOL.
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.--BEECHER.
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.--JULIA WARD HOWE.
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.--MONRO.