How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.