95 Quotes by Bayard Taylor

The loving are the daring.

Love's humility is love's true pride.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...