77 Quotes by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this, – a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

We may believe that we shall know each other’s forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

The night is made for tenderness, – so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music, – and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.