Quotes by Nathaniel Parker Willis

“It is the month of June,The month of leaves and roses,When pleasant sights salute the eyes,And pleasant scents the noses.”

“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”

“For her heart was cold to all but gold,And the rich came not to woo --But honored well are charms to sellIf priests the selling do.”

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

“In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,-that one can put the books down at anytime.”

“The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.”

“Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins”

“For it stirs the blood in an old mans heart,And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voiceAnd the light of a pleasant eye.”

“Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fames ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.”

“Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.”

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

Blessed are the joymakers.