--GOLDSMITH, _The Deserted Village_.

 

Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day, Live till tomorrow, will have passed

away.

 

--COWPER, _Needless Alarm_.

 

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

 

--PAINE, _Rights of Man_.

 

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the pirate, and corrupts the

friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's

betray'd.

 

--POPE, _Moral Essays_.[5]

 

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

 

--SHAKESPEARE, _Othello_.

 

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am

the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.