Quotes by Whittier, John Greenleaf

One brave deed makes no hero. >>

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

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might >>

Quotations about Nostalgia

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and >>

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, hea >>

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. >>

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

Whittier, John Greenleaf