Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.