William Wordsworth

“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”

“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”

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

“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.”

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”

“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”

“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”

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

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

“The child is father of the man.”

“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.”

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

“What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.”

“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.”