255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.