Horace Binney Wallace Quotes:

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

source: - Horace Binney Wallace (1856). “Literary criticisms and other papers”, p.340

Topics: Kind, Posterity

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

Topics: Sweet, Dark, Rivers, Dimples

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 974, To S. Austin Allibone, 1922.

Topics: Book, Thinking, Alive, Good Thoughts