Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
| For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' |
| The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. |
| No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. |
| In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. |