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• Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow lea
  Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn....
• The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Day is done...
• Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Motto, Hyperion, Book i...
• The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Fire of Drift-wood...
• Everything comes if a man will only wait. -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Tancred, Book iv, Chap.
  viii, (1847)...
• The prayer of Ajax was for light. -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Goblet of Life
• Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Rainy Day...
• Rome was not built in a day. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
  lxxi...
• Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Jones, Book iv, Chap. iv...