Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere