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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Ladder of St. Augustine (1850)

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Rainy Day (1842)

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey (1817)

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey (1817)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John KeatsEndymion (1818)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn (1819)

And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.

William WordsworthI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.

William WordsworthI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.

Henry David ThoreauWalden (1854)

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily DickinsonAttributed

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all.

Emily DickinsonPoem 254

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H. G. WellsThe Discovery of the Future

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. WellsThe Outline of History

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. WellsMind at the End of Its Tether

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W. B. YeatsVarious attributed

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet.

W. B. YeatsHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. YeatsHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.

Rudyard KiplingIf—

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim.

Rudyard KiplingIf—

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard KiplingIf—

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