The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.