Bayard Taylor

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring…

— Bayard Taylor

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity…

— Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

— Bayard Taylor

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

— Bayard Taylor

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

— Bayard Taylor

Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence,…

— Bayard Taylor

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

— Bayard Taylor

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few…

— Bayard Taylor

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

— Bayard Taylor

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

— Bayard Taylor

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the…

— Bayard Taylor

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over…

— Bayard Taylor

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held…

— Bayard Taylor

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

— Bayard Taylor

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry…

— Bayard Taylor

I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

— Bayard Taylor

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince…

— Bayard Taylor

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

— Bayard Taylor

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came…

— Bayard Taylor

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first…

— Bayard Taylor

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

— Bayard Taylor

Peace the offspring is of Power.

— Bayard Taylor

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews…

— Bayard Taylor

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

— Bayard Taylor

Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of…

— Bayard Taylor