[A] morning-land full of immeasurable hopes encircled him; he stripped his breast, threw himself all aglow into the dripping grass, washed (but not with any higher purpose than girls have) his firm face with liquid June-snow… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. – Robert Gordon Menzies