Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.