C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Symbols (See Signs)
Science sees signs; poetry the thing signified.
J. C. and A. W. Hare.
It (Catholicism) supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
Nath. Hawthorne.
Longfellow.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
Cicero.
Wordsworth.
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs; a’ brushes his hat of o’ mornings; what should that bode?
Shakespeare.
Butler.
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
Ruskin.
Shakespeare.