What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire!…

- James Sheridan Knowles

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

- James Sheridan Knowles

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

- James Sheridan Knowles

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is su…

- James Sheridan Knowles

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

- James Sheridan Knowles

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part …

- James Sheridan Knowles

The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge…

- James Sheridan Knowles

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

- James Sheridan Knowles

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

- James Sheridan Knowles