J. G. Saxe Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

J. G. Saxe

	At Learning’s fountain it is sweet to drink,
	But ’tis a nobler privilege to think.

	“God bless the man who first invented sleep!”
	So Sancho Panza said and so say I;
	And bless him, also, that he didn’t keep
	His great discovery to himself, nor try
	To make it,—as the lucky fellow might—
	A close monopoly by patent right.

	Golden hair, like sunlight streaming
	On the marble of her shoulder.

	He says a thousand pleasant things—
	But never says “Adieu.”

	I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
	If one be better with them or without—
	Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
	Knows the high art of what and how to read.

	I will touch
	My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;
	And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine
	My message will go kissingly to thine,
	With more than Fancy’s load of luxury,
	And prove a true love-letter.

	Say, what is life? ’Tis to be born
	A helpless babe, to greet the light
	With a sharp wail, as if the morn
	Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
	To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
	With sunny smiles between; and then?

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.