Quotes by : William C. Bryant

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye There is no fragrance in April....

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.....

The groves were God's first temples.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her....

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the....