If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.