How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.

The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost; For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost; For the want of a horse, the rider was lost; For the want of a rider, the message was lost; For the want of a message, the battle was lost; For the want of a battle, the war was lost; For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost; And all for the want of a horseshoe's nail.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.

Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits For breath to reinspire him from the gates That open still toward sunrise on the vault High-domed of morning. - Algernon Charles Swinburne,

Methought I say the footsteps of a throne. - William Wordsworth,

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Feast of Matthias the Apostle Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.