Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. 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

“A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him

Water is the only drink for a wise man

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live