—Marcus Aurelius.
Insist on your self; never imitate. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from these. If you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice.
—Emerson.
Just because there’s fallen
A snow-flake on his forehead,
He must go and fancy
’Tis winter all the year!
—Aldrich.
How poor they are that have not patience.
—Shakespeare.