Original Poems for Infant Minds Quotes

“One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.”
― Jane Taylor, Original Poems For Infant Minds

“Why must I hear, in summer evenings fine,
A thousand happier birds in merry choirs?
And I, poor lonely I, in grief repine,
Caged by these wooden walls and golden wires!”
― Jane Taylor, Original Poems For Infant Minds

“What a man soweth, the same shall he reap.”
― Jane Taylor, Original Poems For Infant Minds

“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess
Should teach them the poor to despise;
For 'tis good manners, and not in good dress,
That the truest gentility lies.”
― Jane Taylor, Original Poems For Infant Minds