Edward Rowland Sill

“To-morrow, I will live, I will reform.”

“The king is dead, the aliens have the land!”

“Earth bears no balsam for mistakes.”

“What is it to be a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful manner.”

“Before me lies a hazy distance.”

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

“Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night.”

“This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: there spread a cloud of dust along a plain.”

“The great soul burns as quietly as a star.”

“Were I a cloud, I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I know not whither, And live I know not where.”

“There is no rhyme that is half so sweet As the song of the rain in the star-lit street.”

“The ill-timed truth we might have kept— Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?”

“But for our blunders—oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall.”

“So let me live that I may be A sober page of history.”