You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.