Being able to quote the wisdom of others is almost as good as making up the words yourself.
Perspective
To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candlelight.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
There is no season such delight can bring,
As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring.
~ William Browne
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. ~ William Blake
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. - Cervantes "Don Quixote"
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. " Eleanor Roosevelt
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone;
it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...