Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Idleness induces caprice.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

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.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.