Great Throughts Treasury

"With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars."

"With gentle hand touch -- for there is a spirit in the woods."

"With hope it is, hope that can never die, effort, and expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be."

"With Nature never do they wage a foolish strife; they see a happy youth, and their old age is beautiful and free."

"Without Thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!"

"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."

"Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man."

"Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged."

"Yet sometimes, when the secret cup of still and serious thought went round, it seemed as if he drank it up, he felt with spirit so profound."

"Yet tears to human suffering are due; and mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown are mourned by man, and not by man alone."

"Yet was Rob Roy as wise as brave; forgive me if the phrase be strong;? a Poet worthy of Rob Roy must scorn a timid song."

"Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance."