One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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

Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

The child is father of the man;/ And I could wish my days to be/ Bound each to each by natural piety.