We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing an exact man.
—Francis Bacon: “Of Studies.”
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man, and bird, and beast.
—S. T. Coleridge: “Ancient Mariner.”
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,