If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of read more

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.