our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.