In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools’ pleasures....
1944
GEORGE ELIOT:  Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i.

=Treason.=

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.
1945
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss’d his master,
And cried—­All hail! when as he meant—­all harm.
1946
SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper:  what’s the reason?  Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1947 SIR JOHN HARRINGTON:  Epigrams, Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own’d when ’tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
1948
DRYDEN:  Medals, Line 207.

=Treasure.=

The unsunn’d heaps
Of miser’s treasure.
1949
MILTON:  Comus, Line 398.

=Trees.=

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover—­most serene. 1950 ROBERT BROWNING:  Pauline, Line 726.

The groves were God’s first temples.  Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them.
1951
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:  Forest Hymn.

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o’er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg’d in thy living bowers. 1952 HENRY VAUGHAN:  The Timber.

A brotherhood of venerable trees. 1953 WORDSWORTH:  Sonnet composed at ——­ Castle.

=Trial.=

We learn through trial.
1954
MARGARET J. PRESTON:  Attainment, St. 7.

=Trifles.=

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. 1955 HANNAH MORE:  Sensibility.

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year;
And trifles life.
1956
YOUNG:  Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 193.

=Triumph.=

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master, and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
1957
ROBERT BROWNING:  The Ring and the Book, Line 1185.

=Trouble.=

Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
1958
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be:  that is the question: 
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
1959
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Truth.=

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 1960 CHAUCER:  The Frankeleines Tale, Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 1961 SHAKS.:  1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1.