“Ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
“Small service is true service, while it lasts.”
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
“Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.”
“Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.”
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.”
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.”
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
“Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?”
“That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
“Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.”
“I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there One of a mighty multitude whose way Is a perpetual harmony and dance Magnificent.”
“Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.”
“This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”
“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.”
“The child is the father of the man.”
“Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.”
“A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.”
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.”