Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.