Related:

• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), _For Righteousness' Sake_ (1855)
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
  -- John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892, U.S. poe...
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) _Maud Muller_ [1856]...
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Maud Muller, st. 53...
• Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilde
• Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?
  Leaves, like the things of man, You, with your fresh thoughts Care for, can you?...
• For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative? -- Thornton Wilde
• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageou
  it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilde...
• Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
  -- John Derek (in Knock on Any Door, screenplay by Willard Motley)...