Children Quote by O. Henry

“Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely…

— O. Henry

“He had squandered the two most precious treasures ever known: the gift of life and the gift of love.”

— Jackson Radcliffe

“Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings;…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I weep and…

— Tana French

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there…

— Virginia Woolf

“Whatever the hardship of life, and whatever the harshness of test and trial was, the same fate with which our misfortune is preordained may…

— Mohamed Adly

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth.”

— Charlene Costanzo

“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a…

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“then all these people were his brothers and sisters. Each one of them carried the memory of a beloved mother and a better past,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest”

— Steven Erikson