A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. |
What rights are those that dare not resist for them? |
Who is wise in love, love most, say least. |
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. |
Tis not too late to seek a newer world. |
He makes no friends who never made a foe. |
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. |
There's no glory like those who save their country. |
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? |
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. |
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. |
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. |
A day may sink or save a realm. |
Ring out the false, ring in the true. |
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. |
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. |
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. |
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. |
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. |
Authority forgets a dying king. |