Aid the dawning, tongue and pen:
Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen:
Aid it, hopes of honest men!

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I
am in special need of help, read more

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I
am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by
somebody on whom I have no claim.

Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
Out of the powerful legions under earth,
Help me this read more

Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
Out of the powerful legions under earth,
Help me this once, that France may get the field.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where you taper cheers the read more

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.

But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'

But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's read more

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the
less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
[Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for read more

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'