It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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…

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis