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

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

"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."

"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."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."