Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 January 1806
CountryUnited States of America
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
The taste forever refines in the study of women.
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.
The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.