The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.