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

- William Wordsworth

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

- William Wordsworth

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.

- William Wordsworth

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

- William Wordsworth

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

- William Wordsworth

To begin, begin.

- William Wordsworth

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.

- William Wordsworth

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

- William Wordsworth

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

- William Wordsworth

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

- William Wordsworth

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- William Wordsworth

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

- William Wordsworth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

- William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

- William Wordsworth

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

- William Wordsworth

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

- William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

- William Wordsworth

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

- William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

- William Wordsworth

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.

- William Wordsworth