“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

“Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.”

“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”

“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -”

“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”