English
Poet and
Essayist
(October 19,
1784 -
August 28,
1859)
"Colors are the smiles of nature."
"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers."
