Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on …

- Charles Godfrey Leland

Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy…

- Charles Godfrey Leland

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

- Charles Godfrey Leland