Great towers take time to construct.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.