Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you…

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best …

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson