(One) has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much who has enjoyed the trust (and respect) of intelligent men (and women), and the love of little children who has filled (one’s) niche and accomplished (one’s) task who has left the world better than (one) found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or rescued soul who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best (one) had whose life was an inspiration whose memory a benediction.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
1904
