• With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429