Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. – Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. – Robert Frost
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. – Pliny, about the opal