Let all the little poets be gathered together in classes And let prizes be given to them by the Prize Asses.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  Harold's Leap,'To School!'

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:ösurely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed. 823

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Across the Plains,'A Christmas Sermon', pt.4.

Nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraidöthe little along with the great and powerful. Those are American principles, American policies.We could stand for no others. Theyare also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech to the Senate, 22 Jan.

With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

-Wordsworth,William
  'To the Daisy', stanza1 (published1807).