John Hay
John Hay
John Milton Haywas an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was also an author and biographer, and wrote poetry and other literature throughout much of his life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 October 1838
CountryUnited States of America
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.
At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.