Bryant rose at five, Bancroft at dawn, and nearly all our leading authors in the early morning.

Washington, Jefferson, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun were all early risers.
Daniel Webster used often to answer twenty to thirty letters before breakfast.
Walter Scott was a very punctual man.

This was the secret of his enormous achievements.

He rose at five.

By breakfast-time he had, as he used to say, broken the neck of the day's work.