Questions are then the Windlass and the rope
That pull the grave old Gentlewoman up.
—John Wolcott.
See also Curiosity.
QUOTATIONS
Stanley Jordan, the well-known Episcopal minister, having cause to be anxious about his son's college examinations, told him to telegraph the result. The boy sent the following message to his parent: "Hymn 342, fifth verse, last two lines."
Looking it up the father found the words: "Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, Jordan passed."