Rikki Rogers

Justice delayed is justice denied.

It always seems impossible until its done.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature – if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you – know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.