You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.


The Boys; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to...

You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to...

You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to...

You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to...