Astronomy Quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Blessed are the joymakers.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies!…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis