20 Quotes by 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, which is also my own.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

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.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.