Memorable Quotations: New England Writers

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of New England writers, including Abigail Smith Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Fred Allen, Susan Brownell Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Clara Barton, Robert Benchley, Louise Bogan, Louis D. Brandeis, William Cullen Bryant, John Cheever, Lydia M. Child, E. E. Cummings, Edward Dahlberg, John Dewey, Emily Dickinson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Will Durant, Mary Baker Eddy, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan Glaspell, Ruth Gordon, Spalding Gray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Hoffman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Irving, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, John F. Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Galway Kinnell, Timothy Leary, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, Amy Lawrence Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wendell Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Ann Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, George Santayana, Anne Sexton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anne Sullivan, Paul Theroux, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, Edith Wharton, and John Greenleaf Whittier.