And wretched, and helpless, and very old.
God gave me a thought; a new world grew,
The thought created the world anew.
—S. W. Foss.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to himself, to his friends, to society and the community in general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not only now and then, but every day and every hour.
—Lilian Whiting.
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure that he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure is he that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush.
—Sir Philip Sidney.