When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.