With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

- Bayard Taylor

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

- Bayard Taylor

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

- Bayard Taylor

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

- Bayard Taylor

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

- Bayard Taylor

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it bea…

- Bayard Taylor

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

- Bayard Taylor

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

- Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

- Bayard Taylor