There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts, when we have. COLTON, Lacon. If we exhaust our income in schemes of ambition, we shall purchase disappointment; if in law, vexation; if in luxury, disease. COLTON, Lacon. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. THOREAU, Walden. Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all travelling to one destination-happiness; but none are going by the same road. COLTON, Lacon. Hope, whose habitation is manifestly terrestrial, and whose very existence must, I conceive, be lost, in the overwhelming realities of futurity. COLTON, Lacon. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. SHELLEY, Defence of Poetry. |