All Quotes

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ”

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. ”

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. ”

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. ”

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 mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. ”

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ”

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. ”

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ”