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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires.

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.

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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.

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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

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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.

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

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

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The Child is the father of the Man.

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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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.

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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.

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Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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