“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, in rayless majesty...”
“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”
“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.”
“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.”
“Friendship's the wine of life.”
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; small sands the mountain, moments make the year.”
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but from its loss.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“The official designs of the Government may be described as the silent ambassadors of national taste.”
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings may see their own images.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”