“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. ”

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“Imagination, however high it flies,Falls short, however hard it tries.But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless a boundless trust.”

“I mean now to try and see her as soon as I can: or perhaps, on second thoughts, I had better not; it is better I should behold her through the eyes of her lover. To my sight, perhaps, she would not appear as she now stands before me; and why should I destroy so sweet a picture?”

“Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same storyTo-morrow, and the next more dilatory,For indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!What you can do, or think you can, begin it!Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;Begin it, and the work will be completed.”

“One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.”

“Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.”