The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.

- John Vance Cheney

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]

- John Vance Cheney

Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

- John Vance Cheney

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

- John Vance Cheney

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

- John Vance Cheney

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

- John Vance Cheney

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbl…

- John Vance Cheney

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

- John Vance Cheney

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

- John Vance Cheney