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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Symbols |
| With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes; The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 1,495. | 1 |
| Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified. J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth. | 2 |
| It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Vol. II. Ch. XIII. | 3 |
| All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind, As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. Longfellow—The Harvest Moon. | 4 |
| Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper’s pageants. Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. St. 14. L. 2. | 5 |
| If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs: a’ brushes his hat o’ mornings; what should that bode? Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 40. | 6 |
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