Hid jewels are but lost. [ Quarles ]

Flowers are nature's jewels. [ G. Croly ]

And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom.
Shine like jewels in a shroud. [ Longfellow ]

Who have not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair. [ Ellen C. Howarth ]

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads. [ William Shakespeare ]

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. [ Gray ]

Some asked how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarrelets of pearl. [ Robert Herrick ]

The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays.
Collected light, compact. [ Thomson ]

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell.
And may be found too in an oyster shell. [ Bunyan ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind,
More than quick words do move a woman's mind. [ Two Gent. of Ver ]

Jewels, five words long,
That, on the stretched forefinger of all Time,
Sparkle forever. [ Tennyson ]

As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. [ Pollock ]

These gems have life in them: their colors speak,
Say what words fail of. [ George Eliot ]

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. [ Dryden ]

Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room. [ Locke ]

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. [ Dr. Watts ]

Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]