"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."