What I take from my nights, I add to my days. – Leon de Rotrou, “Vencelas,” translated

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. – J.K. Rowling, “The Egg and The Eye,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

How magnificent the city is by the June moonlight! — after the streets are empty and silent. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens