Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.