What’s in a name? that which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Juliet to Romeo.)
Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?
Campbell.—The Pleasures of Hope, Part II.
What we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but, being lack’d and lost,
Why then we rack
the value.
Shakespeare—Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV. Scene 1. (The Friar to Leonato.)
She was—but words would fail to tell thee what:
Think what a woman should be, and she was that.
Anonymous.
But wouldst thou know what’s Heav’n? I’ll tell thee what:
Think what thou canst not think, and Heaven is
that.
Quarles.—Book V. Epig. XIV.