“Love betters what is best”

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

“How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold?Because the lovely little flower is freeDown to its root, and in that freedom bold.”

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”

“For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude”

“Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.”