William Wordsworth

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

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.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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

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