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"When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear."
Edward Everett / Alaric the Visigoth.

Alaric the Visigoth.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God.""
Edward Everett / Alaric the Visigoth.

Alaric the Visigoth.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand."
Edward Everett Hale / Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten," 1870).

Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten," 1870).

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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