True Culture

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Title:     True Culture
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox]

The highest culture is to speak no ill,
The best reformer is the man whose eyes
Are quick to see all beauty and all worth;
And by his own discreet, well-ordered life,
Alone reproves the erring.

When thy gaze
Turns in on thine own soul, be most severe.
But when it falls upon a fellow-man
Let kindliness control it; and refrain
From that belittling censure that springs forth
From common lips like weeds from marshy soil.

[The end]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem: True Culture

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