Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.