"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
"Into each life some rain must fall."
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."