If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.