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 (1822-1909): Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten," 1870).

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!

O grave! where is thy victory?

O death! where is thy sting?

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dying Christian to his Soul.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

It is a very good world to live in,

To lend, or to spend, or to give in;

But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,

It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Out of my lean and low ability

I 'll lend you something.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.