John Greenleaf Whittier

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' "

"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. "

"No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. "

"The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. "