77 Quotes by Nathaniel Parker Willis

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.