Quotes by William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

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.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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

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

Faith is a passionate intuition.

The child is father of the man.

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 doesn’t know what he is doing.