Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Vogliamo ora congedarci dal nostro vecchio amico in uno di quei rari momenti di felicità perfetta, dei quali, a ben saperli cercare, qualcuno di trova sempre che valga ad allineare la nostra transitoria esistenza terrena. Esistono sulla terra le ombre nere, ma per contrasto le zone luminose appaiono ancora più chiare.