A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. – Charles Simmons
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. – Charles Simmons
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. – Charles Simmons
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. – Charles Simmons
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881