15 quotes
Dignity is a tin god in the temple of bunk.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Nature is the nest professor in the end.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Just have one more try - it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.
Wisdom is peace, peace wisdom.
Both are born of a humble heart and a nourished gratitude.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
The world is full of scribbling Nobodies
who think they’re scribbling Somebodies.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
After fifty don’t go to a funeral if you can avoid it.
It’s bad enough to go to your own when times comes.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Marriage is a bachelor’s punishment for his sins
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)
Mud is mankind in the moulding,
Heaven's mystery unfolding
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lonely mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.
There's the wretched rent to pay,
Yet I glower at pen and ink:
Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray,
It is later than you think!
Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Oh it is good to ride and run,
To roam the reenwood
wild and free;
To hunt, to idle in the sun,
To leap into the laughing sea
ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)