And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

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.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.