The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

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

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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

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

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.