Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

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

- John Greenleaf Whittier

God's colors all are fast.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

One brave deed makes no hero.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

The smile of God is victory.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

- John Greenleaf Whittier