“ That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. ”

“ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ”

“ Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. ”

“ To begin, begin. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ”

“ With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ”