The Mishnah says: "Eight and Forty Qualifications for the Law" "T HE law is greater than priesthood and royalty, for royalty is acquired by thirty qualifications, priesthood by four and twenty, but the law by eight and forty, and they are as follows: Study, attention, utterance, understanding, reverence, veneration, modesty, cheerfulness and purity, service of the wise, choice of associates, debate with fellow students, deliberation in study of Bible and Mishnah, a minimum of business, a minimum of worldly pursuits, a minimum of pleasure, a minimum of sleep, a minimum of talk, a minimum of jesting, forbearance, kindliness, faith in the wise, resignation in suffering, knowing one's place, satisfaction with one's lot, bridling one's words, refraining from self-complacency, amiability, loving the Creator, loving His creatures, loving righteousness, loving equity, loving reproof, eschewing worldly honor, not being puffed up by learning nor delighting in laying down the law, helping one's neighbor bear the yoke, inclining toward a favorable judgment of others, steadfast in the truth, steadfast for peace, concentration in study, asking, answering, listening, enlarging, learning with a view to teach, learning with a view to act, enabling one's teacher to become wiser, thoroughly understanding what one hears, and repeating every dictum in the name of him who uttered it.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

He sought a spot where committee meetings and mosquitoes and dust and noise are unknown; where he could have unlimited supplies of fresh vegetables, milk, cream, johnny-cake and cornmeal mush; where he could tickle his lungs with the breath of the sea, and, above all, where the trout hold a reception every day in the week—except Sunday.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

From his divided beard two streams he pours; His head and rheumy eyes distil in showers.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

It was a pleasant day, and the sun was warm without being hot, a rare enjoyable day in June.
— from Five Thousand Dollars Reward by A. Frank Pinkerton

I mean to have a row every day if necessary, until they leave me alone to follow my own road, and if they won’t, as I said, to go to the Court of Chancery for protection.
— from A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[Pg 74] From his divided beard two streams he pours; His head and rheumy eyes, distil in showers; With rain his robe and heavy mantle flow, And lazy mists are lowring on his brow.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden