While you are proclaiming peace with your lips be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind contentment grace the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

Nature more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals especially in the more thoughtful men which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Nature is not human hearted.