John Greenleaf Whittier's Quotes

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

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

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

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

God's colors all are fast.

One brave deed makes no hero.

The smile of God is victory.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.