A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

Do not rest on your laurels when you get to the top

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.