Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.