Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

In her eyes a thought
Grew sweet and sweeter, deepening like the dawn—
A mystical forewarning!

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789 he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.