"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."

“The Whittier Bi-centennial Recording Project, featuring the poem "Snow-Bound" read by Michael Maglaras”

“Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.”

“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”

“Whittier Family Homestead and Birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier”

“Their right, like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.”

“John Greenleaf Whittier Home, Amesbury, Massachusetts”