There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.