A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. |
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London |
All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me. |
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. |
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song |
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. |
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. |
Do noble things, not dream them all day long |
Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles. |
Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables |
Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables |
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. |
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. |
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. |
For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep. |