Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.