We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

If I am not I, who will be?

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.