| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Whittier |
| | | Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun. | 1 |
| Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. | 2 |
| For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest were these: “It might have been.” | 3 |
| God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds. | 4 |
| Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. | 5 |
| Man is more than constitutions. | 6 |
| The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good. | 7 |
| The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. | 8 |
| The time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. | 9 | | |
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