It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.