“Fate loves the fearless.”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

“In creating the only hard thing's to begin”

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”

“October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.”

“If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue Success will bless what'er you do.”

“Thirty days hath September April June and November All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight in fine Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.”