Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
King Henry V., Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
Parody on Pope. C. CIBBER.
Yet Hold it more humane, more heavenly, first,
By winning words to conquer willing hearts,
And make persuasion do the work of fear.
Paradise Regained, Bk. I. MILTON.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
"Careful with fire," is good advice, we know,
"Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead:
But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
First Settler's Story. W. CARLETON.
SPIRITS.
GLENDOWER.—I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR. —Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
King Henry IV., Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
Paradise Lost, Bk. IV. MILTON.
Spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both,
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