Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.