William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Most popular William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
The groves were God's first temples.
Weep not that the world changes–did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
They talk of short-lived pleasure—be it so— Pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
