Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

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.

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

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.