Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should...
Beauty is a relation and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her...