Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

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.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.