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

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner’s eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

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.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.