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Paganism . Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. {Hare.}
Page . Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. {Lowell.}
Page . Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, / All but the page prescribedtheir present state. {Pope.}
Page . I do not study to swell my page with pompous trifles, suited only to give weight to smoke. - Non equidem studeo, bullatis ut mihi nugis / Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo {Pers.}
Page . Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul. {Gray.}
Page . Nature is the only book that teems with meaning on every page. {Goethe.}
Page . Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. {Carlyle.}
Page . One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. {Thackeray.}
Page . Those who write books on despising fame inscribe their own name on the title-page. - Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt {}
Page . Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index. {R. H. Busk.}
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