James Jeffrey Roche

James Jeffrey Roche in 1889

James Jeffrey Roche (31 May 1847, Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland – 3 April 1908, Berne, Switzerland) was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat, Editor of the Boston Pilot and Helped put Teddy Roosevelt in to office. James's Father Edward Roche was one of the Greatest Mathematical Men of his time in P.E.I. who saw to the education of James Jeffrey , James's son Arther Somers Roche also a Great Author.

Quotes

• 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).