And Wealth, more bright with Virtue joined

Virtue’s achievement, Folly’s crime, Whate’er of guilt or good the past has known, Not e’en the Sire of all things, mighty Time, Hath power to change, or make the deed undone.

The lofty lucre of renown.

Her lakes are oceans, every stream a bay, Wide through her frame its branching artery throws: Her mountains kiss the moon: her sapient sway A beauteous belt hath wrought, whose ties enclose Tribes without end, realm after realm embraced In …

The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the …

Forts, cannons and foreign aid will not help unless every man himself knows that he is the guard of his country.