Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
William WordsworthBabylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
William WordsworthLife is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth