Ancient Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue,…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson