When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
The child is father of the man.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
