I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
