Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 January 1806
CountryUnited States of America
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
The soul of man createth its own destiny.
Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.