Prism quotes

Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Dr Chasuble.The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2.

From my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought alone. 925

-William Wordsworth
^1805  The Prelude, bk.3, l.58^63 (published1850).