Poems List

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.