Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.