"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."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."