You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Is there life before death?
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.