“Be you—

Because—

Others are taken. . .”

—Oscar Wilde

“The Shape of Things to Come. . .”

—Herbert George Wells (Title of a book)

“Keep the home fires burning. . .”

—Lena Guilbert Ford

“We will get it done. . .”

—Gary Dean Copas

“A Room of One’s Own. . .”

—Virginia Woolf (Title of a book)

“A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. . .”

—Samuel Johnson

“My candle burns at both ends. . .

It will not last the night. . .

But, oh, my foes, and oh, my friends—

It gives a lovely light. . .”

—Edna St. Vincent Millay (“Figs from Thistles, First Fig”)

“Happy the man, whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound. . .

Content to breathe his native air. . .

In his own ground. . .”

—Alexander Pope

“Associate yourself with men of good quality. . .

If you esteem your own reputation;

For ’tis better to be alone than in bad company. . .”

—George Washington