Edgar A. Guest Quotes (5 Quotes)

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds, For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to liv.

With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin; Without any doubting or quit it, He started to sing, as he tackled the thing; That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that --At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.