Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies;—

Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower,—but if I could understand

What you are, root and all—and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

—Tennyson.

Life is the beat possible thing we can make of it.

—Curtis.

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,