For man is man and master of his fate..

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of go….

Ah, why should life all labor be?.

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of pros….

The greater the man the greater the courtesy..

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understandi….

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point..

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself..

I am a part of all whom I have met..

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night..

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars..

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves..

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?.

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with co….

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice..

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies..

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die..

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things..

O hard, when love and duty clash!.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows..

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works..