As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

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.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

My soul is not a palace of the past.