"Who are the violets nowThat strew the..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.”

“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.”

“One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”

“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”

“The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.”

“The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.”

“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?”

“That grand old poem called Winter”