Quotes by William Wordsworth

That best portion of a good mans life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

The child is father to the man.

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moments ornament.

Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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.

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

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

The best portion of a good mans life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.