We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
My soul is in the sky.
Love – thou art deep – I cannot cross thee – But, were there Two Instead of One – Rower, and Yacht – some sovereign Summer – Who knows – but we’d reach the Sun?
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
