Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

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.