No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Tho' much is taken, much abides.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.