Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

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.

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.