James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

S. Lover

In the wilderness of life there are springs and palm-trees.

Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears.

Many a hand moulded by Nature to give elegance of form to a kid glove is “stinted of its fair proportion” by grubbing toil.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

There is a magic in a great name.