James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Whittier

Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun.

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest were these: “It might have been.”

God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds.

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.

Man is more than constitutions.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good.

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath.

The time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice.