Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.