Life is earnest, art is gay.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.
The dream is short, repentance long.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.