John Greenleaf Whittier

God gives quietness at last.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The still, sad music of humanity.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

One brave deed makes no hero.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Despair is infidelity and death.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

— John Greenleaf Whittier

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

And I will trust that He who heeds The life that hides in mead and wold, Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The child must teach the man.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The smile of God is victory.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

— John Greenleaf Whittier