Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. Goldsmith, Oliver
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. Goldsmith, Oliver
How dreary – to be – somebody! How public – like a frog – to tell your name – the livelong June – to an admiring bog! Dickinson, Emily
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. Swetchine, Anne Sophie
How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. Morris, Lewis
How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Browning, Robert
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. Southey, Robert
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. Beecher, Catharine Esther
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Wilde, Oscar
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Scott, Sir Walter
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Dillard, Annie
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. Roosevelt, Franklin
