That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my
sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
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.
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.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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.
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.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.