Sweetness

"They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much."

"Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail."

"Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good."

"Sweet meat must have sour sauce."

"The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."

"The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"—as Swift … most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

"Sweets to the sweet: farewell."

"They are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb."

"Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air."

"Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."

"If it is too sweet for him, let him eat salt. If it is not too sweet for him, let him eat ."

"Everye white will have its blacke And everye sweete its soure."