Rikki Rogers

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do and thinks it still matters.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.