Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. James Thomas Fields More Quotes by James Thomas Fields More Quotes From James Thomas Fields How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe. James Thomas Fields flower sweet men Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. James Thomas Fields sunshine summer heart What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. James Thomas Fields produce youth age Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land? James Thomas Fields ocean land Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic. James Thomas Fields fault-finding faults owl The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury. James Thomas Fields humor doe men A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. James Thomas Fields journey blessing doors Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! James Thomas Fields mills apples home Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. James Thomas Fields battle desire heaven Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! James Thomas Fields oh again down home
