I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.