... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Long...fellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching ...miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,... And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote The Canterbury Tales and his old age... Made beautiful with song; and as I read I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note Of lark and linnet, and from every page Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead; nor doth He sleep;... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heard the bells, on Christmas Day, Their old, familiar carols play,... And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »