William Cullen Bryant Quotes

#1. A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

William Cullen Bryant

#2. I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step.

William Cullen Bryant

#3. The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

#4. Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]

William Cullen Bryant

#5. And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;

William Cullen Bryant

#6. All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.

William Cullen Bryant

#7. The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

William Cullen Bryant

#8. A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

William Cullen Bryant

#9. And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

William Cullen Bryant

#10. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

William Cullen Bryant

#11. Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

William Cullen Bryant