On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

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

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

To be, or not to be: what a question!

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

She wielded the ultimate weapon against him, his kryptonite - her touch.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

I hate wearing suits and ties.

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight