Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.
How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.