—Shakespeare.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

—Webster.

Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

—Thomas Carlyle.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.

—Lincoln.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,