As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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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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The glories of the possible are ours.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Life lives only in success.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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