Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

- James Thomas Fields

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

- James Thomas Fields

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who…

- James Thomas Fields

Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

- James Thomas Fields

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every…

- James Thomas Fields

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

- James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

- James Thomas Fields

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

- James Thomas Fields

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That ev…

- James Thomas Fields