What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! - Charles Dudley Warner

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.