We are what we must, And not what we would be. I know that one hour Forestalls not another. The will and the power Are diverse. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

We are our own fates. Our deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.

And the jasmin-flower in her fair young breast:
(O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmin-flower!)
And the one bird singing alone in his nest:
And the one star over the tower.