Experience.
The hard-won fruit of failure and of sorrow,
The wisdom many buy, but few will borrow.
Facts and Ideas.
We cherish our ideas like hot-house flowers,
Fact, stubborn ass, breaks in and all devours.
Facts and Imagination.
In facts amassed a world chaotic lies,
Imagination bids the Kosmos rise.
Faith.
Faith prays more fervently for love than light;
Love's voice will guide to Heaven though all be night.
Faith without Love.
Who loveless faith imbibes, that devil's drink,
Makes life a mad-house, death a fiery sink.
Faith and Reason.
Reason, God's revelation shows to Faith,
Faith, Reason arms for sorrow or for death.
Faith's Effect.
Pierced hearts by faith may light and cheerful be;
Pure gold admits the finest filigree.
Fear of Pedantry.
Scared by the name of pedant, many flee
Into pert slang or tedious levity.
Fire-eater.
The roar of cannon-balls delights his ears,
To him it is the music of the spheres.
Foolhardiness.
Take sense away and men won't dare the less,
But courage then we call foolhardiness.