And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touchd by the thorns. – Thomas Moore
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. – Thomas Moore
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. – Thomas Moore
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – thats training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. – Thomas Moore
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau