Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.