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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke-and found that life was duty.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.