“ The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. John Hay
“ I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne. John Hay
“ Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends. John Hay
“ True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Hay
“ And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, whi… John Hay
“ This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and trial, a timelessness in the making. The proportions of truth a… John Hay
“ In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great sil… John Hay
