"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed" — Josh Billings

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest

Source: Pippa Passes (1841)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

God made the country, and man made the town.

Source: The Task (1785)

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky:

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

Josh Billings Quote