Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

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

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.