Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.