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.

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

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

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

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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