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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.