Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.[803:2]

[803:2] On of the Prince de Ligne's speeches that will last forever.—Edinburgh Review, July 1890, p. 244.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow,

Who never spent the darksome hours

Weeping, and watching for the morrow,—

He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii.