Quotes by William Wordsworth

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

"To begin, begin."

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

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

"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."