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

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

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

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.