[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,

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. – La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665