Live the life you've dreamed.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.