Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
BAYARD TAYLORAnd the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Life lives only in success.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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