We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

True worth is in being, not seeming