The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.