Mary Gardiner Brainard Quote

That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.


Ownership, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven...

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven...

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven...

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven...