Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at, be thy country’s, thy God’s, and truth’s.
—Shakespeare.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen—
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
—Whittier.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
—Bryant.