Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds;

You can’t do that way when you’re flying words.

“Careful with fire,” is good advice we know;

“Careful with words,” is ten times doubly so.

Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;

But God himself can’t kill them when they’re said.

Will Carleton.


Help the weak if you are strong;

Love the old if you are young;