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.
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky – I’ve thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless...
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
There is creation in the eye.
Earth helped him with the cry of blood.
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
I bounded o’er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
For nature then to me was all in all.
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
A primrose by the river’s brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
Spires whose “silent finger points to heaven.”
Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.