"Bangle styles also demonstrate how the Indus artisans produced ornaments that served to unite as well as to different…"

"Medals, rank, ribands, lace, embroidery, scarlet, Are things immortal to immortal man, As purple to the Babylonian ha…"

"Suppose him in a handsome uniform,— A scarlet coat, black facings, a long plume, Waving, like sails new shiver’d in a…"

"I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear."

"Jewellery?—Baubles; bad for the soul; Desire of the heart and lust of the eye!"

"You mend the jewel by the wearing it."

"Εἴθ᾿ ἄπυρον καλὸν γενοίμην μέγα χρυσίον, καί με καλὴ γυνὴ φοροίη καθαρὸν θεμένη νόον."

"There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel."

"Haec ornamenta mea."

"La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur, Elle n’avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores, Dont le riche attirail…"