Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.