Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.