Faith is a passionate intuition.

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.

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

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

The child is father of the man.

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

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.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

To begin, begin.

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.

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

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.

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.