Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.