He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.