Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Top 46 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nathaniel Parker Willis on Wise Famous Quotes.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses.
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,
a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!
a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!
The perfect world, by Adam trod,
Was the first temple
built by God
His fiat laid the corner stone,
And heaved its pillars, one by one.
Was the first temple
built by God
His fiat laid the corner stone,
And heaved its pillars, one by one.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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.