Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by James Thomas Fields

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American publisher James Thomas Fields.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet. His business, Ticknor and Fields, was a notable publishing house in 19th century Boston.

American - Publisher | December 31, 1817 - April 24, 1881

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Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Thomas Fields

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

James Thomas Fields

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

James Thomas Fields

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

James Thomas Fields