E measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Selden, Table Talk.
H! spare those Gardens where the leafy glade
Prompts the proposal dalliance delayed;
Where tear-dewed lids, choked utterance, sobs suppressed,
Tear the confession from a doubting breast;
Whence they, who vainly haunted rout and ride,
Emerge triumphant from a suitor's side.
Alfred Austin, The Season.
HEY have queer hotels in Oregon. I remember one where they gave me a bag of oats for a pillow. I had night mares, of course.
C. F. Browne, Artemus Ward's Lecture.