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. – John Greenleaf Whittier
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’. – John Greenleaf Whittier
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. – John Greenleaf Whittier
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. – John Greenleaf Whittier
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. – John Greenleaf Whittier
