James Jeffrey Roche

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James Jeffrey Roche (31 May 1847, Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland – 3 April 1908, Berne, Switzerland) was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat.

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• The net of law is spread so wide,
  No sinner from its sweep may hide.
  Its meshes are so fine and strong
  They take in every child of wrong.
  O wondrous web of mystery !
  Big fish alone escape from thee !
  • "The Net Of Law", The V-A-S-E & Other Bric-a-Brac (published by Richard G. Badger Company, Boston, 1900)

• A brave endeavor
  To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
  Is better than life with love forever
  And love is the sweetest thing on earth.
  • Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The love of man and woman is as fire
  To warm, to light, but surely to consume
  And self-consuming die…
  But comrade-love is as a welding blast
  Of candid flame and ardent temperature:
  Glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast;
  And melting both but makes the union sure.
  The dross alone is burnt—till at the last
  The steel, if cold, is one and strong and pure.
  • My Comrade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I 'd rather be handsome than homely;
  I 'd rather be youthful than old;
  If I can't have a bushel of silver
  I'll do with a barrel of gold.
  • Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• All loved Art in a seemly way
  With an earnest soul and a capital A.
  • The V-a-s-e, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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