He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.