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.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

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

For man is man and master of his fate.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.