To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together… humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. – William Wordsworth
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. – William Wordsworth
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. – William Wordsworth
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. – William Wordsworth
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison