“The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.Matthew Arnold
“No wan cares to hear what Hogan calls “Th’ short an’ simple scandals iv th’ poor.”Finley Peter Dunne
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.Franklin D. Roosevelt
“For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul’s tasking:’Tis heaven alone that is given away,’Tis only God may be had for the asking. James Russell Lowell
“Shall I bend low, and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this. William Shakespeare