Attire Quote by Bayard Taylor

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

— Bayard Taylor

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

— 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, and we…

— 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 relics of…

— 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 age of…

— Bayard Taylor

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

— Bayard Taylor