Everything Is Hard Before It Is Easy.

Distance... Is Like Futurity. A Dim Vastness Is Spread Before Our Souls; The Perceptions Of Our Mind Are As Obscure As Those Of Our Vision... But Alas! When We Have Attained Our Object, When The Distant 'there' Becomes The Present 'here,' All Is Changed; We Are As Poor And Circumscribed As Ever, And Our Souls Still Languish For Unattainable Happiness.

The Important Thing In Life Is To Have A Great Aim, And The Determination To Attain It.

A Man Is Really Alive Only When He Delights In The Good-will Of Others.

And Here, Poor Fool, With All My Lore I Stand No Wiser Than Before.

Shakespeare Is Dangerous To Young Poets; They Cannot But Reproduce Him, While They Fancy That They Produce Themselves.