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• 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]...
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
  -- John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892, U.S. poe...
• If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, `It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see
  `It is, but hadn't ought to be.' -- Francis Brett Harte...
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), _For Righteousness' Sake_ (1855)
• The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.
  -- John G. Whittier (1807-1892) -- The Mantle of St. John de Matha...
• Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 9...
• Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
  -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- The Eve of St. Agnes, Stanza 3...
• The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.