Society and the World

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Here once the embattled farmers stood,

Here once the embattled farmers stood,

One of the low on whom assurance sits

But at my back from time to time I hear

I think we are in rats’ alley

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:

And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

The last temptation is the greatest treason:

In the room the women come and go

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

Let us go then, you and I,

Speech impelled us

Human kind

Success is relative: