The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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.

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

She is Islam, and I am in Love.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.