Richard Henry Stoddard: Living

Richard Henry Stoddard was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on living.

Richard Henry Stoddard: 18 quotes5 likes

“We have two lives about us,
Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
Alternate Heaven and Hell
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Country Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

Songs of Summer (1856), p. 113.