Life Is Not Measured By Its Length,

The Poet's Habit Of Living Should Be Set On A Key So Low That The Common Influences Should Delight Him.

O Day Of Days When We Can Read! The Reader And The Book, Either Without The Other Is Naught.

The First Steps In Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those First Steps Which The Farmer, The Hunter, And The Sailor Take,) Teach That Nature's Dice Are Always Loaded; That In Her Heaps And Rubbish Are Concealed Sure And Useful Results.

No Great Man Ever Complains Of Want Of Opportunity.

We Say That Every Man Is Entitled To Be Valued By His Best Moment. We Measure Our Friends So. We Know, They Have Intervals Of Folly, Whereof We Take No Heed, But Wait The Reappearings Of The Genius, Which Are Sure And Beautiful.