"For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it, though when clouds arise Such natures double-darken gloomy skies."

"All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heart of man."

"Our Pilgrim stock wuz pethed with hardihood."

"Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary."

"His Nature's a glass of champagne with the foam on 't, As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont; So his best things are done in the flash of the moment."

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested."

"A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all,— With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past,— Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man."

"Eripitur persona, manet res."

"There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta, and every man a brick."

"Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a rising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done."

"Au demeurant, le meilleur fils du monde."

"In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, That there's no living with thee, or without thee."

"And, but herself, admits no parallel."

"Hereafter he will make me know, And I shall surely find. He was too wise to err, and O, Too good to be unkind."

"Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known."

"Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air, His very foot has music in 't, As he comes up the stair."

"In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not."

"Les hommes, fripons en détail, sont en gros de très-honnêtes gens."

"Good at a fight, but better at a play; Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay."

"To those who know thee not, no words can paint; And those who know thee, know all words are faint!"

"To set the Cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth; And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth."

"Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor."

"Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself."

"Il ne se déboutonna jamais."

"Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota."

"Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex."

"Grand, gloomy and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his awful originality."

"Optimum et emendatissimum existimo, qui ceteris ita ignoscit, tanquam ipse quotidie peccet; ita peccatis abstinet, tanquam nemini ignoscat."

"Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust."

"No man's defects sought they to know; So never made themselves a foe. No man's good deeds did they commend; So never rais'd themselves a friend."

"So much his courage and his mercy strive, He wounds to cure, and conquers to forgive."

"He that sweareth Till no man trust him. He that lieth Till no man believe him; He that borroweth Till no man will lend him; Let him go where No man knoweth him."

"Nie zeichnet der Mensch den eignen Charakter schärfer als in seiner Manier, einen Fremden zu zeichnen."

"Devout yet cheerful, active yet resigned."

"Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long, But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught."

"It is of the utmost importance that a nation should have a correct standard by which to weigh the character of its rulers."

"Da krabbeln sie num, wie die Ratten auf der Keule des Hercules."

"Gemeine Naturen Zahlen mit dem, was sie thun, edle mit dem, was sie sind."

"Quæris Alcidæ parem? Nemo est nisi ipse."

"Messieurs, nous avons un maître, ce jeune homme fait tout, peut tout, et veut tout."

"It is energy—the central element of which is will—that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is the main-spring of what is called force of character, and the sustaining power of all great action."

"Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait."

"There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil."

"Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are."