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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Circles |
| Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. Sir Thomas Browne—Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. | 1 |
| A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. Isaac D’Israeli—Miscellanies. | 2 |
| The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. Emerson—Essays. Circles. | 3 |
| As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov’d, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Pope—Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 364. | 4 |
| As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes; The trembling surface by the motion stirr’d, Spreads in a second circle, then a third; Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance, Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance. Pope—Temple of Fame. L. 436. | 5 |
| I’m up and down and round about, Yet all the world can’t find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure. Swift—On a Circle. | 6 |
| I watch’d the little circles die; They past into the level flood. Tennyson—The Miller’s Daughter. St. 10. | 7 |
| On the lecture slate The circle rounded under female hands With flawless demonstration. Tennyson—The Princess. II. L. 349. | 8 |
| Circles are praised, not that abound In largeness, but the exactly round. Edmund Waller—Long and Short Life. | 9 |
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