“The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.”

“So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.”

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”