The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Civilization depends on morality.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.