 Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. |
| Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. |
| No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. |
| Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? |
| When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. |
| A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. |
| I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes. |
| Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. |
| I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy. |
| Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. |
| Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. |
| I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. |
| Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. |
| Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. |
| There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. |
| It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. |
| Life is but thought. |
| I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. |
