1. Elizabeth Wordsworth - “If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!”

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2. William Wordsworth - “In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”

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3. William Wordsworth - “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

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4. William Wordsworth - “The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”

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5. William Wordsworth - “That best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”

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6. William Wordsworth - “Wisdom is of times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.”

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7. William Wordsworth - “Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”

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8. William Wordsworth - “We feel that we are greater than we know.”

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9. William Wordsworth - “To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

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10. William Wordsworth - “The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.”

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11. William Wordsworth - “Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”

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12. William Wordsworth - “There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore: - Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.”

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13. William Wordsworth - “A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows.”

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14. William Wordsworth - “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it whaen my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”

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15. William Wordsworth - “Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.”

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16. William Wordsworth - “Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”

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17. William Wordsworth - “The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below.”

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18. William Wordsworth - “The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.”

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19. William Wordsworth - “I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: 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; And then my heart with pleasure fills; And dances with the daffodils.”

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20. William Wordsworth - “We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.”

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21. William Wordsworth - “'My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So it was when my life began; So it is now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety”

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22. William Wordsworth - “A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules.”

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23. William Wordsworth - “That best portion of a good man's life,— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”

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24. William Wordsworth - “Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.”

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25. William Wordsworth - “Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”

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