Occupation: Poet Birth: April 24, 1862 Death: June 17, 1925
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears..
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another..
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end..
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way..
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life..
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy..
A well begun is half ended..
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in..
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, h….
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suff….
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority..
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to ….
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter..
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survi….
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and ….
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation..
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed..
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness..
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene..
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far….
Congenial labor is essence of happiness..