10 Quotes by Henry Kirke White

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

Who shall contend with time, – unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth’d whelp like thee.

I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night’s watchman hurries down.