Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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.