22 Quotes by John Godfrey Saxe

I’m growing fonder of my staff; I’m growing dimmer in the eyes; I’m growing fainter in my laugh; I’m growing deeper in my sighs; I’m growing careless of my dress; I’m growing frugal of my gold; I’m growing wise; I’m growing yes, I’m growing old!

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, “To whom it may concern!” And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without, – Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate’er the rascal’s name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

Young men! it ’s a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!